Tiffany opulence returns to Park Avenue Armory

The Veterans Room in New York’s Park Avenue Armory, a jewel of the eclectic 19th-century American Aesthetic movement, is due to reopen this month after an $8.3m restoration led by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. It is the latest chapter in an ongoing $210m renovation, launched in 2007, of the Gothic Revival building, which opened in 1880 as the training headquarters and social club of the upper-crust 7th New York Militia Regiment.The space is an early commission