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The restoration of the historic Bass Mansion at the University of St. Francis is pretty much complete.
John Henry Bass, a key force in the growth of 19th century Fort Wayne, built Brookside as the centerpiece of his country estate on what is now Spring Street. After fire destroyed the first home, he rebuilt Brookside in 1903 as a steel-framed, sandstone-encased house. The founder of Bass Foundry decorated the mansion with intricate woodwork, fine artwork, valuable antiques and elegant furnishings.
The Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration bought the home and 65 acres south of Spring Street from the Bass family in 1944. They moved what was then Saint Francis College from Layfayette, Indiana to Fort Wayne. The mansion served as the college library until the university opened the Lee and Jim Vann Library in August 2006.
Iguana wall tile -
6 3/4" H X 6 1/4" L X 3/4" D; white stoneware, chrome oxide & tin oxide in terra sigillata (frog), Ferro "Intense Orange" stain (background), slips (branch), Ferro green & yellow stain (leaves); Caput Mortuum (drupes); fired to 1652 F (900 C) in an electric kiln (Cone 010).
The ventilation grille above the light fitting was installed because the original lighting of the museum was by gas. The grille is further surrounded by fireproof enamelled metal plates designed to fit in with the overall decorative scheme.
The modern electric lighting globes are a more recent addition.
Zooming out from my last shot of the altar at Igreja de São Pedro.
Trying out the Canon 50 D with the EF-S 10-22 :D
Huge keystoning has to be corrected but an awesome lens...and amazing camera, ideal for such a wonderful location!
Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
Le Gerbe (The Sheaf), 1953
Ceramic tile embedded in plaster.
This ceramic wall was commissioned from Matisse in 1952 by a Los Angeles couple, Sidney and Frances Brody. They rejected Matisse's first design (!), which ended up in a museum anyway, but bought a full scale cut out version of the subsequent composition, which was given to UCLA.
The ceramic version was shipped out to LA in 15 pieces in 1954, shortly after Matisse died. It was installed as a patio wall (!) until 2009, when Frances Brody died. It was then removed from the Brody's patio by crane (this was terrifying apparently) and reinstalled as a permanently in LACMA in 2010.
A panel in the Gateway Murals. These are described in the City of Chicago Website as:
“Chicago's largest work of public art to date, Riverwalk Gateway by Ellen Lanyon tells the history of Chicago and its river. The magnificent 336-foot long wall installation consists of sixteen narrative panels and twelve decorative panels. Each panel is six-feet by nine-feet, overglaze painted and fired on ceramic tile. The narratives, which are told through a combination of scenes, vignettes, and objects, begin in 1673 with the explorations of Marquette and Joliet, followed by a mural with scenes from 1782 of Jean Baptiste DuSable and 1803 when Fort Dearborn was built. Paintings record the development of Chicago's bridges and commemorate landmark events and important sites along the river and the lake, concluding in 2000 with the recreational use of the Chicago River.”
This panel commemorates the Plan of Chicago (1909). One of the key elements pf the Plan was the development of lakefront parks and cultural institutions. In this panel the central element is the Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park; the postcards show the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium.
I discovered this beauty in the basement of an old cottage, hidden up in a somewhat distressed part of the old ceiling.
Bison wall tile:
6" H X 11 1/4" L X 3/4" D; greensand clay body with added TSP - TSP is trisodium phosphate, NaPO4, a cleaner (solubility 1.5 g/100 ml at 25 C and 8.8 g/100 ml at 25 C). The TSP migrates to the surface of the piece during drying and later combines with the iron in the clay body as firing proceeds to form a stable red-orange-brown glaze on the surface of the piece. Without the TSP at the temperature the piece was fired, the clay body would be a very light buff-tan-pink color. Fired to Cone 010 (1652 F/900 C) in an electric kiln. The bison is decorated with an iron-manganese slip and outlined in a terra sigillata made from OM-4 ball clay.
from The Handyman's Do-It-Yourself Book, published by The Warwick Press, 1979.
Photographer uncredited.
Ceramic Tiles in the PATCO subway concourse at 8th & Chestnut Sts in Philadelphia. I am really glad they kept these tiles. I am pretty sure there are some closed off concourses that still have the old Gimbles Department Store name spelled out in the tiles. It would be nice if the no smoking signs were removed along with the horrific sign in the middle.
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