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Tiffany & Co.

founded New York, New York, 1837

BiographyTiffany & Co. was founded in New York in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young as a stationery and fancy goods store. The company first achieved recognition for its silver work at the 1867 Paris World’s Fair. Counter to prevailing Victorian taste at the time, the Tiffany & Co. silver studio encouraged its designers to observe and sketch nature. By 1870 Tiffany & Co. had become America's premier silversmith and purveyor of jewels and timepieces. At the turn of the 20th century the company had more than one thousand employees and branches in London, Paris, and Geneva. With the death of Charles Lewis Tiffany in 1902, Louis Comfort Tiffany, prominent American designer and the founder’s son, became Tiffany’s first art director. As the 20th century progressed, Tiffany’s design aesthetic evolved alongside social changes. The company continues to be world-renowned for its fine jewelry and decorative objects.

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