Imagine a mosaic 27 feet high and 20 feet wide. More than 90 years ago, an exterior mosaic of this size was proposed for the main entrance of Broadway Temple in northern Manhattan. The installation, in the likeness of this … Read more →
This watercolor design was created by Tiffany Studios’ ecclesiastical department for a nave window in All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The proposal bears the name of Reverend Willis Wilkinson Memminger who served as rector at All Saints’ from … Read more →
Recently, the Rakow Library acquired six watercolors by Paul Nicolas (1875-1952), a talented artist from Vosges, France. Nicolas attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, where he studied architecture until around 1893, when he began work as a draughtsman at … Read more →
Amid the extensive collection of design drawings held in the Rakow Research Library are 29 by Fulvio Bianconi. Many of these drawings have been recently digitized and are now available online. Bianconi was an Italian designer born in 1915 in … Read more →