Urn from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright American
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1915, not long after completing the Francis W. Little House in Minnesota, the living room of which is exhibited in the American Wing (gallery 745). Although one of the architect’s most famous and respected buildings, the hotel was demolished in 1968. Some portions were preserved, including this monumental urn, one of ten that originally punctuated the building’s complex, horizontal facade. The form of the urn—a circle defined by interlocking squares—is consistent with Wright’s decorative use of primary geometric shapes throughout the hotel.
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