#moderne

[dashalbrundezimmer]

niehler straße // köln niehl

the shaped brick wall, popular in both the west and east as a design element of modernism.

die formsteinwand, beliebt in west und ost als gestaltungselement der moderne.

[lagaylife-france]

Le beau mec du jour par lagaylife.fr

[stone-cold-groove]

Pieces of 8 in the modern manner! Ad for the International Silver Company flatware - 1929.

[misterlemonzlime]

10-07-25 | peace1717. misterlemonzlime.tumblr.com/archive

[13-wonder-writer]

Das tollste an Werken aus der Moderne ist doch immer, dass man die Einflüsse von Freud 1000km gegen den Wind riechen kann

[archinform]

Madonna della Strada Chapel

Loyola University, Chicago

6453 N. Sheridan Road, Loyola University campus

Completed 1938 - 1939

Andrew Nicholas Rebori (1886 - 1966), architect

Madonna della Strada from the northwest. Source: Ryerson and Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago

The Madonna della Strada chapel faces Lake Michigan on the campus of Loyola University, Chicago. The chapel was commissioned by senior priest of the Jesuit Order and university instructor Father James Mertz in 1924. It is named after a painting of the Virgin Mary, known as Madonna Della Strada, enshrined at the Church of the Gesù in Rome, the mother church of the Society of Jesus.

Designed by Andrew Rebori, with associated artists Edgar Miller, Karl Hackert, and Melville Steinfels, among others, the chapel sits next to another Rebori-designed building on the campus, the Elizabeth M. Cudahy Memorial Library.

Caricature of Andrew Rebori, by John Stafford Cromelin. Art Institute of Chicago

Vintage postcard view of the chapel

Chapel drawing, Loyola University Chicago Digital Special Collections

View from the southeast

Facade facing Lake Michigan

The rose window is bordered by relief sculptures of the four Evangelists, designed by Edgar Miller.

Vintage images of the bas relief sculptures of three of the Four Evangelists before they were attached to the front facade of the chapel. Source: Edgar Miller Legacy

Elevations by Andrew Rebori, 1937. Right: The iconic front facade is meant to recall a priest raising the monstrance during Mass. Left: The distinctive five arches are meant to represent the five senses in service to God.

Stained glass design by Edgar Miller

Artist Melville Steinfels (1910-1997), painting the chapel mural Crowning of Mary: Queen of Heaven and Earth, and the Society of Jesus (completed 1947)

SOURCES:

The Chicago Architectural Journal, vol. 4 1984, "Andrew Rebori: Buildings and Business" [PDF]

Patroness of the Road that Never Was: Loyola’s Madonna della Strada Chapel

Edgar Miller Legacy: Madonna della Strada Chapel

Father Mertz, S.J.'s Dream: Madonna della Strada Chapel

Madonna della Strada: Song in Stone

Loyola University Chicago Digital Special Collections

[richwall101]

Ibex House - London

Ibex House is an eleven storey Art Deco office building on the east side of the City of London, just to the north of the Tower of London. It was designed by Fuller, Hall and Foulsham in the Streamline Moderne style, with curved corners and distinctive horizontal bands of faience cladding and black-framed fenestration. Construction started as a speculative development in 1935 and the building was completed in 1937. It became a Grade II listed building in 1982.