Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist`s Country Estate
Frelinghuysen AC
This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany`s extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (1848-1933) designed every aspect of the immense home, which had eighty-four rooms and eight levels, and extensive grounds into which the house was carefully integrated. Tiffany`s residential masterpiece was also a quasi-museum, for he filled it with his own works - windows, glassware, pottery, enamels, lamps, oil paintings, and watercolours - as well as with objects from his collections of Islamic, Asian, and Native American art. Laurelton Hall burned down in 1957, but about ten years earlier most of its contents had been removed and sold. Every aspect of the estate is...
ISBN: 978-0-300-11787-5
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
