Charles De Kay Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develops between two young Parisians, beginning with a first shy encounter and growing into a passionate love that in the end falls victim to the psychological and physical destruction all around them. --- The great French writer Romain Rolland (1866-1944, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1915) wrote his famous tragic love story "Pierre and Luce" at the end of World War I. Its protagonists recall the lovers of classical antiquity as well as those of the Middle Ages.

A jeweler with an established reputation, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. Glass was the field of expertise of Tiffany’s workshops, where they developed groundbreaking techniques that produced beautiful effects on glass. Following the examples of Gallé or Daum, Tiffany made the most of this material, playing with colors, opaqueness, and transparency. However, his most famous success is his lamps in mosaic of glass, similar to cathedral stained glass windows. Diving into this prism of colors, the author makes us dream again of the birth of this enduring company.