Bitter Herbs in the Dream Garden November 7, 2007

In 1914 before its installation in the foyer of the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, over 700,000 came to view the 14- by 50-foot glass mosaic known as 'The Dream Garden' in the New York showroom of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Subsequently hailed as the "greatest collaboration" between two artists, Maxfield Parish the designer and Tiffany the creator, the true story of the mosaic's production is fraught with tales of death, resignations, feuding, bruised egos, art-world in-fighting, and legal wrangling.