Tiffany Chapel, Chapel interior in Winter Park, Florida, United States
The Tiffany Chapel is a Byzantine-Romanesque chapel interior designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company. It has a marble and white glass altar before six carved arches, each carried by two double columns on a raised mosaic platform. A cross stands on the altar between two pairs of candles, and the reredos shows two peacocks under a crown in Favrile glass mosaic. The baptistry holds a globe-shaped font on a hexagonal columned base, and an electrified emerald glass chandelier shaped like a cross hangs from the ceiling.
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.
Tiffany called it "a chapel in which to worship art"; it drew 1.4 million visitors at the 1893 fair and won 54 awards. The reredos shows two peacocks, symbols of eternal life, beneath a crown in Favrile glass mosaic, and the windows depict Christ Blessing the Evangelists and The Story of the Cross.
The chapel occupies 1,082 square feet inside the Morse Museum, with most original elements—windows, columns, arches, moldings, altar floor, and furnishings—on view. The walls, ceilings, and nave floor are modern reconstructions based on the Laurelton Hall installation. Visitors can walk around the chapel and examine the details 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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