Sullivan.Įric Nordstrom focuses on the documentation of historic building materials from commercial and residential construction he founded Urban Remains, an extensive and eclectic store of building materials in Chicago, and created the BLDG. Since age seven his primary and long-term interest has been the story of Chicago’s architecture, especially the work of Louis H. Tim Samuelson is the administrator of his own lifetime architectural preservation archive, and is the City of Chicago’s cultural historian and former curator of architecture and design at the Chicago Historical Society. In 1961 he worked with Richard Nickel to salvage the Garrick Building’s ornament for the City of Chicago. He taught the history of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and has extensive experience in exhibition curation and design. John Vinci, FAIA, senior partner and practicing architect, Vinci/Hamp Architects, Inc., has been an architect in Chicago for more than sixty years. A seventy-two-page facsimile of Richard Nickel’s salvage workbook is tipped into the binding.
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Reconstructing the Garrick documents the enormous salvaging job undertaken to preserve elements of the building’s design, but also presents the full life story of the Garrick, featuring historic and architectural photographs, essays by prominent architectural and art historians, interviews, drawings, ephemera from throughout its lively history and details of its remarkable ornamentation-a significant resource and compelling tribute to one of Chicago’s finest lost buildings. The Garrick (originally the Schiller Building) was built in 1892 and featured elaborate embellishments, especially in its theater and exterior, including the ornamentation and colorful decorative stenciling that would become hallmarks of Louis Sullivan’s career.
The building was replaced by a parking garage, and its demolition ignited the historic preservation movement in Chicago. Here’s a link to Amazon to this calendar.A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildingsįor six months in 1961, Richard Nickel, John Vinci, and David Norris salvaged the interior and exterior ornamentation of the Garrick Theater, Adler & Sullivan’s magnificent architectural masterpiece in Chicago’s theater district. It’s great for this purpose and I can be inspired by prize winning quilts at all the traffic lights. The Quilt Art 2009 Engagement Calendar from AQS lives in my car where I use it to track my mileage. This calendar will amuse me each month, and I’m looking forward to using it.Īnd if you are like me, you’ll need an engagement calendar, too. Each month’s calendar page does give homage to the actual painting. Each month features an undiscovered masterpiece, including “Long Arm Quilting at the Folies-Bergére” by Edouard Manet, “Double Wedding Ring” by Jan Van Eyck and “A Sunday Afternoon on the Old Quilts” by Georges Seurat. Subtitled A Silly Calendar for 2009-2010, this calendar showcases Barbara Brackman’s clever sense of humor.
Once I found The “Lost Quilt Masterpieces,” the choice was easy. But I like to find one to hang in the kitchen.
Isn’t choosing a new calendar for the new year fun? I always pick up the AQS Quilt Engagement Calendar to use as the travel log in my car.
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