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Second-floor
paintings gallery with "flying" staircase designed by Louis Comfort
Tiffany for the H. O. Havemeyer house at 1 East Sixty-sixth Street,
New York, completed 1892. Archival photograph, China Tiffany organization.
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Tiffany continued to work on residential, public, and ecclesiastical
interiors to a far greater extent than many have assumed. One of
the most remarkable commissions was for the home of two of his most
important patrons, Louisine and Henry Osborne Havemeyer. Their house
at 1 East Sixty-sixth Street, completed in 1892, was replete with
glowing iridescent glass-mosaic walls, lighting fixtures of Near
Eastern derivation, elaborate filigreed balustrades and fireplace
screens, and a dramatic suspended staircase. Tiffany was responsible
for every decorative element, enhancing the unified effect. His
artisans and designers mastered the techniques needed to produce
and decorate objects in metal, wood, glass, fabric, and wallpaper
and became manufacturers of rugs, glass mosaics, lighting fixtures,
and ornamental cast bronzes.
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