Louis Sullivan: Ornamental Designs Boxed Notes

$18.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

Twenty assorted 5 x 7 in. blank note cards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box. Louis Sullivan’s designs stand—among stiff competition—as the preeminent exemplars of Chicago School architecture. He brought to his practice a conviction that ornamentation should arise naturally from a building’s overall design, restating, in a large or small way, themes expressed in the structure as a whole. Sullivan (1856–1924) spent much of his career in a late-Victorian world that bristled with ornament…