Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
by Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney; Hutchinson, Elizabeth, et al. (Contributions by)
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- 9780300117875
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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2006. Cloth, xiii, 262 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, held November 21, 2006 to May 20, 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "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 watercolors--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 examined and re-created in this volume: its terraced gardens with fountains and pools; the many outbuildings; and Tiffany's life there. 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. For all who admire Tiffany and his work, this book presents a unique portrait of his remarkable home. / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of American Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University. 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. Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.
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- Title
- Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
- Author
- Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney; Hutchinson, Elizabeth, et al. (Contributions by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300117876
- ISBN 13
- 9780300117875
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Movements / Art Nouveau;
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