Face to Face With Great Things

[princeofcairo]

My mom is visiting us for our birthdays, and she took it into her head that she wanted to go look at the beautiful Tiffany glass domes in the Chicago Cultural Center.

Which, as it turned out, is hosting a Louis Sullivan exhibit -- Louis Sullivan's Idea -- designed by the one and only Chris Ware. Which, as a moment's thought will indicate, turns

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[elissa_carey]

Oh, how I wish I could. So far of the American architects, Sullivan's my favorite. (But Gaudi, Guimard, Mackintosh and Horta beat him out. Art Nouveau is magnificent and vastly underrated.)