"I think he looked at this with special eyes and those eyes help transform the way we look at nature."
Curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen on a remarkable hair ornament by Louis C. Tiffany.
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How this Tiffany hair ornament embodies so much of what the artist was about
"I think he looked at this with special eyes and those eyes help transform the way we look at nature."
Nonnie Frelinghuysen
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Louis C. Tiffany
ca. 1904