• Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
• Office of Frank Lloyd Wright (Tokyo, Japan) (draughtsman)
• Baron Okura Impeho (client)

Cornice details for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

1914 or 1915

- This sheet of details for the cornice for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, was used to work out the decorative treatment of the underside of the cornice. The drawings include small freehand sketches and several larger mechanical drawings with extensive freehand additions. The l.r. drawing, an axonometric view for the corner of the cornice as seen from below, is rendered with coloured pencil and graphite in a few areas.

• design development drawing
• dessins de détail

Graphite and coloured pencil

sheet: 48.0 x 58.4 cm

DR1987:0270

• line drawings
• mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
• freehand drawings
• rendering
• sketches

• dessin axonométrique
• reflected ceiling plan
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

• partial views

- Sheet is trimmed unevenly and has repairs at l.l., l.r. and c.r.

inscribed - by the architect ? in graphite, u.l.: "projecting beam" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, u.l.: "WRG" [on diagonal], "concrete beam 4'-0"" and "SECTION"; u.r.: "FLONT [sic] ELEVATION", "SECTION B-B", "CONCRETE BEAM" [on diagonal] and "STONE" [on diagonal]; l.c.: "2ND FLOOR"; and in various locations: with measurements stamped - embossed, l.l.: "THE FRANK / LLOYD / WRIGHT / FOUNDATION / [foundation number] / CORPORATE SEAL / STATE OF WISCONSIN" numbered - by a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, in graphite, l.l.: "1509.22" [foundation number; within stamp]

• architecture

• cornice

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