John Loring

John Robbins Loring (November 23, 1939 – June 6, 2026) was an American fashion design director and art historian. He was latterly design director emeritus of Tiffany & Co., where he had been design director from 1979 to 2009. He is the author of numerous books about Tiffany's and art in general and was a longtime contributor to Architectural Digest.

Life and career John Loring was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 23, 1939.

Loring earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Yale University in 1960. After graduating, he continued his studies for four more years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Since 1964, his prints and paintings have been exhibited in Europe and the United States.

Loring died in Palm Beach, Florida, on June 6, 2026, at the age of 86.

Works

Public displays of Loring's work include at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City; the Prudential Life Institution Co. of America Eastern home office in Woodbridge, Nee Jersey; in the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Western Savings in Philadelphia; and at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. Loring's work is part of the permanent collections of numerous museums, including: Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Yale University Art Gallery Dallas Museum of Art Venues for one-man shows of his work have included the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1972; Hundred Acres Gallery in Nee York, 1972; Pace Editions, 1973, 1977; the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1975; A.D.I. Gallery in San Francisco in 1976; the Holden Luntz Gallery, in Palm Beach, Florida in 2011; and the Sarah Gavlak Gallery in 2012. His works have been exhibited in group shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in 1971; the New York Cultural Centre, in 1972; Biennale Graphic Art in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, in 1973 and again in 1977; at Intergrafia, Kraków, Poland in 1974; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975, and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1976.