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Yesterday, we visited the morse museum in winter park, FL, a suburb of Orlando. And, my color rods are still reeling from the incredible masterpieces we saw (the largest Tiffany exhibit in the world, BTW)
Such an interesting story behind these treasures' preservation. The granddaughter of Charles Hosmer Morse, the industrialist from Chicago, staged a small exhibit of Tiffany glass in the 1950s in Winter park. Tiffany's daughter heard of the exhibit and wrote her a frantic letter after Tiffany's school and mansion, laurelton Hall burned on Long Island. The daughter started a museum in winter park and hired an art instructor from Rollins college, her future husband, to be its curator. They decided after viewing the Tiffany mansion wreckage that they should save all they could and include it in their museum's future. He lived to build the current museum, which is an extraordinary display space for the pottery, lamps, windows, the Tiffany chapel from the Chicago worlds fair and even the daffodil terrace, featuring said flowers cast in glass at the top of its Carrara marble columns.
The link is www.morsemuseum.org for those of you interested in the images, as I'm not sure of copywrites, etc. . .
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