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NORTHWESTERN TERRA-COTTA (NORWETA)/ MIDWAY GARDENS Ceramic table lamp, a design from Chicago"s Midway Gardens by Fritz Albert with a Middle-Eastern maiden and owl, modelled by Richard Boch. (Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1913-14, this concert garden included an indoor restaurant and dance hall, a five-tiered, outdoor summer garden with band shell, a tavern, and a private club - a work of art on the grandest scale uniting all the arts in an architecture of pleasure. Modeller Richard Boch collaborated with Wright on many projects, this one being their last together. The Midway Gardens were demolished in 1929. www.press.uillinois.edu.) 37" x 9" x 7"


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Date:
2008-04-12

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