Making Light Bloom: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps

This biography introduces Clara Driscoll, whose childhood love of gardens and the natural world informs her designs. After art school, she takes a job with Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York, selecting and cutting glass for windows before leading a workshop of women known as the Tiffany Girls. Flowers and butterflies sent by her sisters inspire her lamp designs. She works out how to shape and light glass, creating lamps that include butterfly-wing and dragonfly forms.