"Designing the Gilded Age" exhibition, the Tiffany studios at the Met
🗓 Add to my calendarThe Metropolitan Museum presents drawings from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the founder of Tiffany & Co.: New York's golden age seen from the workshops that designed the stained glass, lamps and precious objects of the Gilded Age.
How to get in
Included with general museum admission (« free with museum admission »); tickets online at metmuseum.org. The Met's Communications Department (no named contact published for this exhibition): communications@metmuseum.org, (212) 570-3951.
Full-price ticket: adult $30, senior (65 and over) $22, student $17, free under 12; valid same-day at the Met Fifth Avenue and The Cloisters. Tickets online at metmuseum.org.
The turnkey stay
Four blocks from the museum, the Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, has been an Upper East Side institution since 1930: its Bemelmans murals, its Café Carlyle cabaret, and its Dowling's restaurant close out the day in the same Gilded Age spirit as the exhibition.
Where to stay
- The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel : 35 East 76th Street, a four-block walk from the Met Fifth Avenue. An Upper East Side institution since 1930, with Bemelmans Bar and its original murals, and the Café Carlyle cabaret.
Where to dine
- Dowling's at The Carlyle : Reimagined New York cuisine, with more than 200 works of local art on display in the dining room. Reservations on Resy.
What to experience
- Café Carlyle, cabaret : New York's last supper club of its kind, an intimate stage that has hosted Woody Allen, Alan Cumming, and Rita Wilson. Reservations on Tock.