Favrile at Corona Furnace

Although the term is also used for metalwork and ceramics, 'Favrile' is generally associated with the blown glass produced at Corona Furnace on Long Island, New York. First registered in 1894, the Favrile trade name was derived from the old English word "fabrile," meaning to belong to a craft. By using such a name, designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany associated expensive glassware with the romantic image of glassblowers using hand techniques at the turn of the century. While working in a glass works was hardly romantic, the Corona Furnace did employ numerous talented craftsmen. The chief blower and designer, Arthur Nash (American, b. England, 1849-1934), for example, was responsible in many ways for its international success.

Charles Venable, "Three Favrile vases," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 241.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS (list applicable note links)

13315978: UMO. Exhibition lecture in conjunction with Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement; with Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University; explore American artists’ varied responses to the challenges and tensions of an urban, industrial society and the demands of art at the turn of the century—from the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, to the ceramics made at the Rookwood and Grueby potteries, and the lamps and Favrile glass vases from Tiffany Studios

44997821: UMO. Learn about Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933).

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