Louis Sullivan: Ornamental Designs Boxed Cards

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This set of boxed cards includes 20 assorted blank cards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box.

  • 20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box
  • Card size: 5 x 7 inches
  • Printed with soy-based inks on recycled paper

 

About the Artist

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 busy, fussy ornament for ornament’s sake. He refuted the contemporary style with the now famous dictum that “form ever follows function.”