Date: Fri 20-Nov-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDIR

Quick Words:

Architect

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Architech Opens In River North

(with cut)

CHICAGO, ILL. -- Chicago's only commercial gallery of architectural art will

open at 730 North Franklin, Suite 200 in River North on Thursday, December 3.

Former Kelmscott Gallery manager David Jameson has assembled one of America's

most diverse collections of architectural art. The Kelmscott collection of

architectural art and design from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries has

been merged with his own holdings of drawings, engravings and photographs from

Europe and America.

The combination of the two collections will offer collectors drawings from the

offices of Chicago's Daniel Burnham and Alfonso Lannelli, England's Owen Jones

and France's Eugene Emmanuel Viollet le Duc.

Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Richard Nickel, Jay King and A. George Miller,

as well as lithographs by Frank Lloyd Wright and Owen Jones will be available.

Etchings and engravings from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth

Centuries that illuminate buildings from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Roman

ruins to Chester Danforth's Loop skyscrapers will complete the initial

offerings.

In January ArchiTech will present "Fantasy Pavilions, A Century of Progress."

Hours will be Thursdays through Saturdays, noon to 6 pm. Call 773/989-1927 for

more information.