Auditorium Building: Section of the Hotel Bar
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1887/89 (demolished c. 1941)
Medium
Carved oak
Dimensions
25.5 × 42.5 × 15 cm (10 1/16 × 16 3/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
Classification
architectural fragment
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43945
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...