"Metropolitan" Candlestick Prototype
Gift of Swid Powell, 1985
Catalogue
- Year
- 1983
- Dimensions
- 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 in., 3.1 lb. (28.6 × 6.4 cm, 1.4 kg)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Robert A. M. Stern
Artist
Drawing
Robert A. M. Stern is an American architect and urban planner whose practice spans residential, institutional, and civic design from the 1960s onward. Working primarily in a contextualist approach that engages historical precedent and regional character, Stern has designed private residences, academic buildings, and master-planned communities that respond to their architectural and cultural setting rather than imposing a singular stylistic doctrine. His work bridges modernism and traditional architecture, treating ornamentation and material specificity as integral to design rather than decorative afterthought.
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Banana Republic Building, Chicago, Illinois, Sections C-C and D-D
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Banana Republic Building, Chicago, Illinois, Longitudinal Section B-B
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Banana Republic Building, Chicago, Illinois, Second Floor Plan
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Robert A. M. Stern
- Year
- 1983
- Dimensions
- 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 in., 3.1 lb. (28.6 × 6.4 cm, 1.4 kg)
- Watts ID
- WW-1983-157170
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified