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The Tin Room

The Tin Room

Named for the pressed-tin tiles covering the walls and floors, The Tin Room is a small garage housing two of Chihuly’s favorite cars, a 1955 Austin Healy 100M and a 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider. Both cars are like ones Chihuly drove as a teenager growing up in Tacoma, Washington. On the walls are Chihuly’s Glass on Glass paintings, a series developed in 2017. 

The Tin Room, The Boathouse, Seattle, 2019

Dale Chihuly in his Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider automobile
Tacoma, Washington, c. 1960

By far, the greatest design achievement of the twentieth century would have been the cars of America.

–Chihuly 

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