Цвет для глаза — что музыка для уха (Louis Comfort Tiffany)
| “Color,” said Louis Comfort Tiffany, “is to the eye what music is to the ear.” |
| Tiffany, who died on this day 85 years ago, was the son of the founder of Tiffany & Co., the famous jeweler. But the younger Tiffany found his own success as an artist and designer, most famous for his work with stained glass. |
 Tiffany stained glass at a hotel in Mexico City. Eye Ubiquitous/UIG, via Getty Images |
| In 1881, he helped redesign the interior of a house in Hartford, Conn., owned by Mark Twain, who was making his name after the publication of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” |
| The work was followed a year later by a commission with a much higher profile: redecorating the White House. |
| Chester Arthur had been thrust into office after the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881. He hired Tiffany to remodel the Executive Mansion to suit his refined tastes. |
| Tiffany redecorated several rooms, and he also installed a large stained-glass screen in the Entrance Hall. |
| But his mark on the White House did not last. Twenty years later, in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered a major renovation that swept away the building’s Victorian touches — including Tiffany’s screen. View in Browser Correction: A picture caption with Wednesday’s briefing misidentified the designer of a stained-glass ceiling in a Mexico City hotel. He was Jacques Gruber, not Louis Comfort Tiffany. (from NYT) |
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