Louis Sullivan: Ornamental Designs Boxed Notes

Twenty assorted 5 x 7 in. blank note cards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box.

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. Sullivan (1856–1924) spent much of his career in a late-Victorian world that bristled with ornament for ornament’s sake.

Contains five each of the following note cards:

Adaptation from Getty Tomb, 1890

Adaptation from Adler & Sullivan office door, 1879-1880

Adaptation from Auditorium Building, 1887-1889

Adaptation from Auditorium Building, 1887-1889

Published with the Chicago Architecture Foundation

Materials: Thick, quality cardstock with white envelopes 

Dimensions: 5.25 x 7.25 x 1.5 inches (box measurement)