Design for garden room
Louis C. Tiffany American
This presentation drawing for a garden room represents a grand-scale example of the fusion between the outdoor garden and interior design. The inclusion of green wicker seating, a tile-backed pool, and skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows with leaded-glass floral designs all contribute to the merger of indoor and outdoor spaces. Prominently displayed at the end of the room is a statuette shown in a niche, lined presumably in blue glass mosaic. The sculpture is a reduction after Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s figure of Victory for the Sherman Monument unveiled in 1903 in New York. A later reduction, presumably the same size as this one, is in the Museum’s collection and on view in Gallery 771. Though details of the drawing’s commission remain unknown, the room may have been designed for an early collector of Saint-Gaudens’s work.
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