Louis Comfort Tiffany's studio at his Seventy-second Street and Madison Avenue apartment, New York City, completed 1885. From Charles de Kay, "A Western Setting for the Beauty of the Orient," Art and Decoration 1, no. 12 (Oct. 1911), p. 472. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library.

 
   

After 1883 Tiffany worked primarily on his own. In 1885 he completed work on his second home, in a massive McKim, Mead, and White–designed Romanesque revival building at Seventy-second Street and Madison Avenue commissioned by his father. Tiffany's top floor studio was perhaps the most startling room. With its theatrical and cavelike appearance, unique four-sided central fireplace, and forest of glass lanterns of various shapes and colors suspended from the ceiling, it was described as "a dream: Arabian Nights in New York."

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