Louis Sullivan: Holiday Cheer
[Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co./Schlesinger & Mayer Department Store (1903) Louis Sullivan, architect /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
At the corner, the bulge offered a choice a five arched entrances, to invite approach from all directions, each door being topped with a great wreath of laurel.... To cross such a threshold, the whole setting seemed to say, confirmed not one's interest in vulgar commerce, but one's devotion to art.
- Willard Connely
[Cast iron detail, Wabash Avenue window surround (ca. 1901) Louis Sullivan, architect /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
Sullivan was the first American architect to think consciously of his relation with civilization.
- Lewis Mumford
[Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1893) Adler & Sullivan, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
Certainly in no other buildings than Sullivan's can one find such arresting originality, fertility of invention, sensitiveness, movement and love of true creation pervading the whole.
- Hugh Morrison
Posted by designslinger at 12/28/2010 4:57 AM 
Categories: Architecture, Ephemera, Architects
Tags: Louis Sullivan Adler and Sullivan commercial architecture
Categories: Architecture, Ephemera, Architects
Tags: Louis Sullivan Adler and Sullivan commercial architecture
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