Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is hosting an exhibition “Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest” that will be on view through March 26, 2017.The exhibition is a part of the series “Passion for the Exotic,” featuring the collection of Cooper Hewitt. This particular exhibition connects Andrew Carnegie’s (1835-1919) 1902 Teak Room in his mansion, with its designer Lockwood de Forest (1850‒1932) and the creator of the lamps and the chandelier in it, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848‒1933). Tiffany and de Forest collaborated on aesthetic interiors together and apart for over twenty years since 1877. Tiffany’s tireless experimentation with new materials, motifs and radiant hues is explored through a range of glass production, which led him and de Forest acquire objects from Middle-East and India. The exhibition brings together 37 objects (currently 35 on view), featuring a Tiffany dragonfly lamp owned by the Carnegie family and important loans of a Daffodil lamp, an inkwell box and a fire screen from the collection of Richard H. Driehaus, offering the visitors an opportunity to experience the interplay of Tiffany and de Forest’s designs, under the patronage of Andrew Carnegie, whose appreciation for Tiffany’s experiments in iridizing glass and de Forest’s wall stencils, brought them together, striking an interesting aesthetic conversation.The exhibition is on view at Cooper Hewitt Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128, USA. For details, visit https://www.cooperhewitt.org/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.  Read more