Louis Sullivan’s designs stand—among stiff competition—as the preeminent exemplars of Chicago School architecture. He brought to his practice a conviction that ornamentation should arise naturally from a building’s overall design, restating, in a large or small way, themes expressed in the structure as a whole. The designs adapted for this notecard assortment combine Art Nouveau complexity with geometric elegance, and in doing so epitomize the Sullivan sensibility. 

Features:

• Embossed images
• Recycled paper
• Contains three each of the following notecards: Adaptation from ornamental medallion on Schlesinger & Mayer (now Carson Pirie Scott) department store, 1899/1904 Adaptation from ornamental detail on Auditorium Building, 1887–1889 Adaptation from ornamental grillwork on Schlesinger & Mayer (now Carson Pirie Scott) department store, 1899/1904 Adaptation from ornamental detail on Getty Tomb, 1890
• Soft white envelopes

Dimensions:

• Box size: 5.375 x 6.875 x 1.25 in.
• Card size: 4.75 x 6 in.