David Adler’s French influenced Art Deco design for Clow House (1927) in Lake Forest, Illinois, with interiors by Frances Elkins and Eyre de Lanux.
Photo 1: The great hall is defined by a Scandinavian-inspired Art Deco coved ceiling and furnished in silver screen worthy glamour by Eyre de Lanux.
Photo 2: The grid-pattern paneled dining room designed by Eyre de Lanux is pure luxe.
Photo 3: Frances Elkins’ elegantly sober classical interpretation for the great hall.
Photo 4: David Adler’s simplified classic façade, featuring a forecourt bounded by spare, squared gray limestone columns with parallel metal rods between echoes Josef Hoffmann’s 1913 tea house courtyard for Vienna’s Villa Primavera.
Photographed by Samuel Herman. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection; Library of Congress.
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