“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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