While known today primarily for his elaborate lamps, favrile vases, and magnificent
stained glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany was in his day also a sought-after interior designer,
pioneering the concept of the home as a unified artistic masterwork. An amazingly
versatile artist, Tiffany applied his design skills successfully to every residential feature,
including lighting, mosaic-, plaster-, and woodwork, textiles and furnishings, and of
course, art glass. Preservationist Jeanne Pelletier examines Tiffany’s ground-breaking
interior designs and chronicles the 25-year effort to preserve his last surviving residential
commission, Boston’s Ayer Mansion, completed in 1902 for entrepreneur Frederick Ayer
and his charismatic wife, Ellen Banning Ayer.
Preserving the Last Surviving Tiffany Residential Commission: The Ayer Mansion in Boston
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
2:30 pm