Chimney Piece from the Benjamin Lindauer House, Chicago, Illinois
Medium
Unglazed Terra-cotta
Dimensions
35.6 × 40.7 × 38.1 cm (14 × 16 × 15 in.)
Classification
earthenware
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46626
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...