Doorplate from the Guaranty Building
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1895
name: label: Designer
content: Louis Henry Sullivan, American, 1856–1924
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Buffalo, New York, USA
label: used in
content: Buffalo, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Roger G. Kennedy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1979-77-9
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Doorplate
label: Type
content: Doorplate
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Cast iron
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 35.6 x 6.1 x 2.7 cm (14 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/16 in.)