View of the plaza of the Seagram Building through a revolving glass door, New York City

People:

Ezra Stoller (photographer)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (furniture designer)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Philip Johnson (furniture designer)
Philip Johnson (interior designer)
Samuel Bronfman (client)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (interior designer)
Philip Johnson (architect)
Phyllis Lambert (planning director)

Title:

View of the plaza of the Seagram Building through a revolving glass door, New York City

Date:

1958

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

composition (irreg.): 19.5 x 24.5 cm sheet: 20.3 x 25.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1990:0190

Point of View:

exterior view
interior view

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, c.l.: "FIRST / NATIONAL CITY BANK" [on awning above bank entrance]; c.l. to c.: "[FIR]ST NATIONAL CITY [B]ANK" [on bank façade above awning; letters partially obscured by column and mullion]; c. to c.r.: "THE [G]REENWICH SAVINGS" [on bank façade above awning; letters partially obscured by column and mullion]; c.r.: "THE GREENWICH SAVINGS BANK" [on awning above bank entrance]; and l.c.: with illeg. text at b. of window to right of revolving door numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.r. to c.r.: "4IT - 26" [sideways; possibly neg. no.] imprinted and numbered - on the negative, u.r.: "3 ANSCO SAFETY FILM" [backwards; sideways]

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
bank (building)
revolving glass door

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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