Tiffany Chapel, Art Nouveau chapel interior in Winter Park, Florida.
Tiffany Chapel is an Art Nouveau chapel space within the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum in Winter Park featuring six carved plaster arches, sixteen mosaic columns, and an emerald glass chandelier weighing about 1,000 pounds. The room also includes wooden benches, a baptistery, and a Field of Lilies window.
Louis Comfort Tiffany designed the chapel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After the event, it was taken apart and later reassembled at the museum in Florida.
The chapel blends Byzantine and Romanesque design elements through colored glass mosaics and marble details throughout the space. Visitors notice how these influences work together to shape the overall character of the room.
The chapel is located inside the museum, which maintains the space with wooden benches and a baptistery area. Visitors can explore the interior at a leisurely pace since everything is accessible up close.
The reredos displays peacock mosaics made from Favrile glass, a technique Louis Comfort Tiffany patented. This method creates iridescent patterns through metallic oxides that shift color depending on how light hits them.
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