House and Garden 
\'() 1 . X 
September, 1906 
No. 3 
ONE SOURCE OF COLOR VALUES 
II.LUSTRA'l ING MR. LOUIS C. TIFFANY’s SIGNIFICANT HANDLING OF THINGS GRFATER THAN ARCHI TFCTURR 
AND ONF SOURCE OF HIS STRENGTH IN COLOR 
By Samuel Howe 
Photographs hy Mr. Pifjany 
^HERE on earth is a palette so rich, so intoxi- 
^ ^ eating as a garden of flowers in the month of 
June Where is there an art more fascinating than 
the art of the mosaicist and enamelist ? 
Eor years a Painter has given himself up to the 
peculiar study of transmitting beauties of nature to 
elements of decoration. Here has he lived for 
twenty years, working and resting and working 
again. 1 he garden his school, the flower his com¬ 
panion, his friend, and his inspirer. Madcap 
charmers, coaxing him forward with gentle banter 
and roguish glee, setting a pace painter or craftsman 
could not follow, exhibiting tempting glimpses of 
rainbow brightness for a brief moment, then— 
snatching them away. Was painter ever wooed like 
this Fickle flowers as color standard of measure¬ 
ment, changing every light. In these living flowers 
has the 'Painter found expression for his dreams, no 
undue emphasis, no false note, his designs showing 
movement of perfect simplicity. “1 can’t get the 
THE PLAN OF THE COURT 
1 he house and tower forming one half of the eircle the remaining part being shaped by the lower wall of the stone terrace and the 
trellis which stands free. I'he court is level and is about 100 feet across. From a sketch by the Author. 
