Each capital of Laurelton Hall's terrace loggia features a botanically correct flower—from left, the lotus, the dahlia, the poppy, and the saucer magnolia. Each flower is depicted in three stages of growth, from the bud at the bottom, just below the flower in full bloom, to the seed pod, at the very top. The glass-mosaic panels in the spandrels and the iridescent blue glass-tile frieze evoke Byzantine mosaics.