Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. First. Softcover. VG-. Clean and tight, with lower right corner of cover bumped on one copy, owner's writing inside front cover on other copy.. Color pictorial wraps with white lettering on navy spine. xiii; 262 pp. 350 illustrations, 235 in color. "This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines Laurelton Hall in all its aspects. The authors trace innovations and precedents in Tiffany's designs for his earlier residences and re-create in detail Laurelton's architecture and interiors, Tiffany's "museum" of his own work, and the passion he shared with many of his contemporaries for collecting Asian and Native American art. Surviving artworks and salvaged architectural components from Laurelton are illustrated in newly commissioned color photography. The book offers an unprecedented portrait of the unique and marvelous place that was Laurelton Hall - a place where visitors stepped into and inhabited a work of art."--Jacket. Contents as follows: A Marriage of east and west: Tiffany's earliest interiors -- "The most artistic house in New York City": the Tiffany House at Seventy-second Street and Madison Avenue -- Louis Comfort Tiffany's country residences -- Mysticism, alchemy, and architecture: designing Laurelton Hall / Richard Guy Wilson -- An expression of individuality: the interiors of Laurelton Hall -- Tiffany's collections: paintings, glass, ceramics, enamelwork -- A museum of his own: Tiffany's leaded-glass windows -- Tiffany's collection of Asian art at Laurelton Hall / Julia Meech -- Native American art at Laurelton Hall / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- The art of magnificent living: life at Laurelton Hall -- For the advancement of art: the Louis Comfort Tiffany foundation / Jennifer Perry Thalheimer.