This led him to conceive buildings in their totality, designing interiors, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, stained glass, textiles, lighting and murals wherever possible. He fully subscribed to the notion that a building was a complete work of art requiring that each element contribute to the effect of the whole. The monumental copper urn was a design he used in many houses both as an architectural decoration, often high atop rafters or interior partitions, and as a vessel for holding dried flowers or branches on tabletops.

Provenance

Dana House, Springfield; (local) auction house conyenys (1943); Christie's New York, 13/7/86; Mr Thomas S.Monaghan.