The Tiffany Ayer Mansion, the only completely Tiffany-designed home in the world, is on the market in Boston.
Listed with LandVest | Christie’s International Real Estate, the $14,995,000 listing at 395 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston’s Back Bay is truly one of a kind.
The five-story home fronting both Commonwealth Avenue and Marlborough Street was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and it’s just as stunning as it was when it was unveiled in 1902. The building is on the last block before the city’s Charlesgate Park and the Emerald Necklace.
“When the sleek, pale façade of The Ayer Mansion was unveiled in 1902 amid the red brick of Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue, it was a challenge to the old order,” the firm says.
Jean Abouhamad, president of SEA-DAR Real Estate and Construction, who, along with Charles Reed of CNW Capital Partners, is the current owner and developer of the project and an award-winning expert in the sensitive re-envisioning of historic properties in Boston, calls the Tiffany Ayer Mansion “utterly unique, the only completely Tiffany-designed home in the world.”
“The team we have assembled brings world-class talent and deep experience with landmark properties to, in effect, collaborate with the work of one of design’s towering figures,” he said.
The property has been noted as a triumph of American design.
“Perhaps Tiffany’s most lavish and unusual use of mosaic decoration in a domestic context occurred in the house he designed in 1899 at 395 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston, Massachusetts. The house is further testament of Tiffany’s love of Islamic art, and its interpretation in the medium that he made his own,” wrote the Metropolitan Museum’s Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen.
The home incorporates “exotic elements of glittering glass mosaic tile, arched ceilings and a stunning mosaic trompe-l’œil Greek temple revealed through the proscenium arch in the foyer, and combines them with a surprisingly contemporary exterior, ornamented by colored tile, bright metal and glass.”
Views from the property’s rooftop deck span “the Citgo sign, the full sweep of the Charles River Basin to the glittering towers of downtown and Back Bay,” according to the listing.
Find out more about the Tiffany Ayer Mansion at https://tiffanyayermansion.com.