The Untold Story of Louis Comfort Tiffany's Global Artistic Empire and How America's Master of Light Became the World's First Global Design Ambassador

When we think of Louis Comfort Tiffany, our minds inevitably turn to those iconic stained glass lamps with their iridescent dragonfly wings and poppy blossoms, or perhaps the jewel-toned windows that grace countless churches and private residences. Yet this singular focus on his most commercially successful works has obscured a far more complex and ambitious artistic legacy—one that reveals Tiffany as a pioneering collaborator in America’s emerging vocabulary of interior arch

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, isn't just a final resting place; it's a sprawling outdoor museum, a testament to lives lived, and a repository of history. This video offers an extraordinarily rare and personal glimpse into its depths, guided by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.