Featured Book: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

Sara Trucksess

Clara and Mr. Tiffany is a smart and refreshing novel about the hardships and triumphs of women in the arts at the turn of the century in New York. It is written beautifully by a master of the art novel genre, Susan Vreeland. You will feel compassion, anger and gratitude for the women of this novel and all that they suffered so that women today can work in the decorative arts without a second thought. Clara and Mr. Tiffany follows the true life story of Clara Driscoll, the head of the women’s decorative arts department at Tiffany, and reveals the strong and creative women behind one of decorative arts’ most famous men.

Prodded on by the success of his father’s Tiffany and Co. jewelry business, Louis Comfort Tiffany strove to outshine his father’s goals, see the world differently, and create and design museum-quality pieces above and beyond his competitors. Despite his many faults and egomania, Tiffany did see great value in the ideas of his female employees, his company being one of …