The Veterans Room at the Park Avenue Armory

One of the most important interiors in the country reopened after a year-long restoration, as part of the design team’s ongoing work on a historic armory building. Working with Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, the room has become an intimate setting for eclectic cultural programmes.

The room was a major civic commission awarded in 1879 to Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated Artists, a newly formed collective including Tiffany, Stanford White and Candace Wheeler at the start of their careers. Tiffany set its character and made the windows, the glass and plaster mural and the glass tiles of the fireplace, White arranged the woodwork, Samuel Colman handled ornament and colour, Wheeler the draperies, and the painters Francis Millet and George Yewell the frieze.

The intervention responds to the exuberance of the original design, bringing together a team of artisans and specialists in Tiffany glass, fine woodworking and decorative arts with new lighting and fittings for contemporary use.