Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300117876 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of American Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University. and Lulu C. Julia Meech is an independent scholar and Consultant to the Department of Japanese Art, Christie’s, New York. Jennifer Perry Thalheimer is Collections Manager, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida. Barbara Veith is Research Associate, American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. About the AuthorAlice Cooney Frelinghuysen is Anthony W. Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia.
"Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall" according to Art lover. This is an excellent and scholarly book filled with incredible photos and descriptions of LCT's home, Laurelton Hall. The author has written a series of fine chapters that look at all aspects of this magnificent residence. What the fire at Laurelton destroyed, this book restores with words and photos. For all of you who love Tiffany's artistry, this book is not to be missed!. S. Smith-Peter said A total work of art. This book is a serious art historical look at Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall, built on Long Island in the early nineteenth century. The house was Tiffany's "consummate statement on the transformative power of art, on how the integration of architecture, landscape, and setting can create a metamorphic experience of intense beauty." (p.59) The book is a collection of articles, including ones on Tiffany's earlier apartments and houses, his aesthetic interests, the building of Laurelton Hall, Tiffany's Asian and Native American collections, his vases, and more. One of the more e. An Excellent Book! I own and have read several books on Tiffany, but never one as interesting as this. This book takes you through a brief history on Tiffany, but more importantly it focuses on the homes and the most treasured work of L.C. Tiffany--items he created and his goal of bringing beauty into everyone's lives. All the essays in the book are well written and reveal how Tiffany's design and placement changed over time and climaxed with the building of his Laurelton Hall. Great historic photographs, as well as modern photography, show the remnants of the estate and the beautiful details of each
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is Anthony W. Julia Meech is an independent scholar and Consultant to the Department of Japanese Art, Christie’s, New York. Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of American Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University. Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia.. Barbar
The interior decoration of Laurelton Hall, a particular focus of the book, is represented by both numerous period photographs and newly commissioned color photography of surviving artworks and salvaged architectural components from the estate. Tiffany’s residential masterpiece was also a quasi-museum, for he filled it with his own workswindows, glassware, pottery, enamels, lamps, oil paintings, and watercolorsas 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. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (18481933) 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. Every aspect of the estate is examined and re-created in this volume: its terraced gardens with fountains and pools; the many outbuildings; and Tiffany’s life there. This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. For all who admire Tiffany and his work, this book presents a unique portrait of his remarkable home.