There he fostered the production of luxurious "art pottery, " the ceramic counterpart of the richly colored and textured "art glass" produced by LouisComfortTiffany and other innovators.
The female model that Bouguereau painted so impressed the American artist LouisComfortTiffany that he used her as the subject of one of his most famous glass windows.
At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of LouisComfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.
In its designs it was still guided by the art nouveau tastes of its founder, LouisComfortTiffany, who restyled the interior of the White House in the 1880s and became the most fashionable decorator in New York .
Built in 1880, it is a prime example of the American Aesthetic Movement and one of only two surviving interiors by LouisComfort Tiffany's Associated Artists cooperative. (The other is the adjacent library.) The room showcases elaborate architectural woodwork by Stanford White, an exotic painted frieze by Francis D.