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

Plan and decorative details of the soffit of the upper and lower balconies for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

1914 or 1915

- The two drawings on this sheet are partial reflected ceiling plans for upper and lower balcony soffits for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. Both drawings include areas where the decorative treatment of the soffit is worked out in detail, including the decoration around the dome of the lower balcony. The entire sheet is covered with a 7.5 cm grid.

• design development drawing
• dessins de détail

Graphite with brown pencil

sheet: 58.0 x 79.7 cm

DR1987:0271

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

• reflected ceiling plan

• partial views

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.l.: "Plan of Soffit of Upper Balcony of Banquet Hall"; c.r.: "Plan of Soffit of Lower Balcony in Banquet Hall / Sections A.-A."; u.c..: "Dome", "Stone / Soffit"; c.: "Wood", "Stone"; c.r.: "Metal + Glass / Inserts"; l.r.: "IMPERIAL"; c.: with an erased inscription; c.r.: with an illeg. inscription numbered - by a member of the FLW Foundation, in graphite, l.l.: "1509.27" [foundation number]

• architecture

• soffit

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