Monday, February 6, 2012

WHO: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mercedes-Benz Showroom, 430 Park Avenue,1955



“This de luxe showroom, at the corner of Park Avenue and 56th Street, was, until the completion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright’s only visible work in New York.  The spiral ramp motif, which Wright had used earlier for the Morris Shop in San Francisco, and which was to be so beautiful an element in the Guggenheim, is employed here, though far less effectively, in part because of the low ceiling and partly because the cramped, abrupt turning motion all too clearly recalls the ramps of multi-floor parking garages.”
- “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in New York City,” The Museum of Modern Art and the Municipal Art Society of New York, Prepared by Ada Louise Huxtable; Distributed by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Third Printing 1966.
Image courtesy wirednewyork.com.

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