A System of Architectural Ornament by Louis H. Sullivan—all 29 pages/plates: #bookstr #publicdomain #designstr 
Discussion
⬆️ #grownostr (forgot that one)
I made this photo scan from a book I bought from a library collection that was being discarded. The photos show the plates as they were reproduced in the book. So while the reproductions aren’t fantastic, they do capture the ideas Mr. Sullivan is presenting.
This book is one of the last projects he completed when he was broken down and discarded, out of fashion and left behind by the International Style. But his apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright, went on to embrace and become the most well-known practitioner of the Prairie School and to give an alternative approach to modernist architecture in America, embracing craftsmanship over mass production.
my brother would love this! so sad he had to go last autumn 🍂🍃
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m glad this brought him to mind 🙏
Another candidate for #alexandria
Oh I didn’t think of that!
Please let me know if you need better reproductions—i.e. flatter pages. Unfortunately the copy I have doesn’t have the best reproductions of his original drawings which are in Chicago, I think either at the AIA there or at the Art Institute of Chicago.
That one is hard to work with. Even the text is just fuzzy pictures.