Door panel from the Henry Stern House, Chicago, Illinois
Medium
Painted wood
Dimensions
65.7 × 73 × 6.4 cm (25 7/8 × 28 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.)
Classification
architecture
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267535
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...