LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cast iron, patinated wrought iron, oak and marble

Measurements:

133.62 in. (339.40 cm.) (height) by 102.52 in. (260.40 cm.) (width) by 50.24 in. (127.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Literature:

Albert Bush-Brown, Louis Sullivan, New York, 1960, fig. 64 (for a similar staircase designed by Sullivan for the Guaranty Building, Buffalo); David Lowe, Lost Chicago, Boston, 1975, p. 140; Sarah C. Mollman, ed., Louis Sullivan in the Art Institute of Chicago: The Illustrated Catalogue of Collections, New York, 1989, cat. no. 164 (for a baluster panel from the Chicago Stock Exchange); Mario Manieri Elia, Louis Henry Sullivan, 1856-1924, New York, 1996, p. 102 (for a rendering showing a staircase in the Chicago Stock Exchange) and pp. 120-122 (for a similar staircase designed by Sullivan for the Guaranty Building, Buffalo); John Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room, Chicago, 1977, pp. 22-23 ; John Szarkowski, The Idea of Louis Sullivan, Boston, 2000, p. 95 (showing the related elevator fascade from the Chicago Stock Exchange)