Quadrangle Fountain
Creator: Chiurazzi Co. (Naples, Italy)
Date: 1927
Medium: marble
Notes: This fountain was commissioned by George Booth in 1926. It is a copy of a fountain in Monreale Cathedral in Palermo, Sicily. The fountain was installed in the Cranbrook campus in 1927. Eliel Saarinen designed the octagonal, stepped basin that surrounds the water feature.
Links:
Quadrangle Fountain in Cranbrook Digital Archives
Date: 1927
Medium: marble
Notes: This fountain was commissioned by George Booth in 1926. It is a copy of a fountain in Monreale Cathedral in Palermo, Sicily. The fountain was installed in the Cranbrook campus in 1927. Eliel Saarinen designed the octagonal, stepped basin that surrounds the water feature.
Links:
Quadrangle Fountain in Cranbrook Digital Archives