Cooper Hewitt
Doorplate from the Guaranty Building
Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924 · ca. 1895
Upright, roughly rectangular form with curved edges at top and bottom; cast decoration of stylized vegetal motifs, the word GUARANTY (for the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY (1896, Adler and Sullivan, architects) in oval worked into decoration at top; circular hole for doorknob slightly above center; a small screw hole near each corner.
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