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 these notecards combine Art Nouveau complexity with geometric elegance, epitomizing the Sullivan sensibility. 

Please note: the images are not printed with ink. The shapes of the illustrations are embossed on high-quality 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

Set of twelve notecards, three each of four designs. Comes in sturdy decorative box.