- Title: 250,000 pieces of Tiffany glass live in a NYC warehouse
- Date: 15th August 2018
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 15, 2018) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, HOLDING SHEETS OF TIFFANY GLASS UP TO LIGHT (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, SAYING: "The thing that's really important about the Neustadt Tiffany Glass Archive is that it documents this unbelievable chapter in the history of stained glass. So Tiffany really transformed the history of stained glass by introducing, as you see here, all of these incredible colors and textures, various patterns, different opacities of glass. And so he really was seeking to create paintings made out of glass." SHEETS OF TIFFANY GLASS ON TABLE TO PARROTT (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, SAYING: "The Neustadt Collection was founded in 1969 by this early Tiffany collector Egon Neustadt and his wife Hildegard and they had a passion for Tiffany lamps that began in 1935." PARROTT HOLDING UP FRONT AND BACK OF TIFFANY GLASS (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, SAYING: "This one wonderful daffodil lamp kicked off an entire collection. They became deeply passionate about Tiffany lamps. They were transfixed by the beauty." TILT DOWN OF BACK OF TIFFANY GLASS (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, SAYING: "They spent the rest of their life building a phenomenal collection. And eventually they had assembled more than 200 Tiffany lamps." PARROTT HOLDING UP FRONT AND BACK OF TIFFANY GLASS (SOUNDBITE) (English) LINDSY PARROTT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS, SAYING: "In 1967 though, they purchased this huge cache of Tiffany glass that was left over when the furnace was closed in 1937. So Tiffany's furnaces were originally located in Corona, Queens and so much of the glass that you see here was made here in New York City." NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 15, 2018) (REUTERS) (MUTE) TIME-LAPSE VIDEO OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 15, 2018) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TIFFANY LAMPS ON DISPLAY VARIOUS OF PIECES OF GLASS THAT'S A PREVIEW OF AN EXHIBITION OPENING ON OCT. 7 IN THE NEUSTADT GALLERY AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM EXPLORING TIFFANY IRIDESCENT GLASS, CALLED "TIFFANY'S IRIDESCENCE: GLASS IN RAINBOW HUES" PAN FROM TABLE WITH IRIDESCENT GLASS TO TABLE WITH SHEETS OF GLASS VARIOUS OF SHEET OF PRESSED GLASS JEWELS PAN OF SHEETS AND SHARDS OF GLASS VARIOUS OF JEWELS USED AS DECORATIVE ACCENTS IN TIFFANY MOSAICS, WINDOWS, LAMPS AND DESK SETS VARIOUS OF TIFFANY STAINED GLASS WINDOWS VARIOUS OF GLASS ORGANIZED BY TYPE, COLOR, TEXTURE AND PATTERN IN WOOD SHELVES PAN OF EXTERIOR OF THE NEUSTADT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY GLASS WAREHOUSE
- Embargoed: 29th August 2018 21:22
- Keywords: Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass Tiffany glass Tiffany lamps Tiffany stained glass warehouse
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Art,Arts / Culture / Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA0018TASZFD
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: On an industrial block in Long Island City, Queens, a quarter of a million sheets, shards and pieces of multicolored and iridescent glass sit in a warehouse that make up the largest collection of Tiffany glass at the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.
The Neustadt Collection was founded in 1969 by Tiffany collector Egon Neustadt and his wife Hildegard. Their passion for Tiffany lamps began in 1935. They purchased their first Tiffany lamp, a daffodil shade, in a second-hand shop in Greenwich Village as the newly married couple were trying to furnish their first home.
"This one wonderful daffodil lamp kicked off an entire collection," said Lindsy Parrott, executive director and curator of the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass. "They became deeply passionate about Tiffany lamps. They were transfixed by the beauty. They spent the rest of their life building a phenomenal collection. And eventually they had assembled more than 200 Tiffany lamps. In 1967 though, they purchased this huge cache of Tiffany glass that was left over when the furnace was closed in 1937. So Tiffany's furnaces were originally located in Corona, Queens and so much of the glass that you see here was made here in New York City."
American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany and his design team created Tiffany Studios, which made those iconic color-infused, leaded glass lamp shades and stained glass windows that Neustadt fell in love with. Tiffany Studios closed in the late 1930s and the beloved lamps and windows stopped being produced then. Tiffany died in 1933 and was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of the American jewelry and silver company.
"The thing that's really important about the Neustadt Tiffany Glass Archive is that it documents this unbelievable chapter in the history of stained glass," said Parrott. "So Tiffany really transformed the history of stained glass by introducing, as you see here, all of these incredible colors and textures, various patterns, different opacities of glass. And so he really was seeking to create paintings made out of glass."
The warehouse in Long Island City holds all sorts of Tiffany glass, from drapery glass meant to mimic a flowing robe, rippled glass meant to suggest water, pressed glass jewels and 3D glass jewels meant to adorn lamps, mosaics and windows and is all carefully sorted and ordered by color, size, texture and type.
The not-for-profit collection is rarely open to the public, although Neustadt's lamp and window collection can be seen at the Queens Museum and the New York Historical Society. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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