The Tiffany Lamp coil stamp is the third issue of the American Design Series. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) designed ornate colored glass lampshades that often featured flowers, fruit, and leaves. This stamp replaced the 1¢ American Kestrel coil stamp. Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany was born on February 18, 1848, in New York City, New York. Tiffany was born to wealthy Charles Lewis Tiffany, owner of Tiffany & Co. jewelry store in Manhattan. Tiffany attended military academies before beginning training as a painter. He studied under George Inness and Samuel Colman and attended the National Academy of Design in New York City before traveling to France. Tiffany first became interested in glass while he was an art student in France around 1875. He returned to the US and worked in several glasshouses before forming a company with fellow artists. They designed wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. That business only operated for four years, after which Tiffany formed his own glassmaking factory. Tiffany continued to do interior work, providing the interior design for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1881. But his most notable design project came the following year. When Chester A. Arthur became president, he had been used to living in luxury and found the White House looked like “a badly kept barracks” and refused to move in. He then hired the best interior designer of the day, Louis Comfort Tiffany.