The eight Tiffany windows at St. Paul’s are the creation of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of New York’s Tiffany Jewelry Company Founder, Charles Tiffany.
These windows stand as a continuing memorial to the creator of the finest stained glass figure windows ever produced in this country.
These windows are priceless. They are of exquisite Favrile glass, a Tiffany creation that is remarkably pearl like and opalescent. (Favrile comes from the French word Fabrile meaning handmade)
One unusual feature of the windows is that they are 3 dimensional, with the subjects’ robes folding outward.
Tiffany began experiments with glass in 1875 and established his first glass house in 1898. In 1924, Tiffany furnaces closed. Later commissions utilized the excess glass accumulated through the years. Nothing has been produced since 1938. In 1932 Tiffany studios filed for bankruptcy. In 1933, Louis Tiffany died having destroyed the formula for favrile glass which has never been duplicated.
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