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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
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