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Midway Gardens Sprite Statue
What a beautiful face!
$169.00 Reg.
$149.00 SALE
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The Midway Garden Sprites were originally designed for the purpose of adorning and watching over Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens complex, which was built on Chicago's lakefront in 1914, as the last of Wright's Prairie Style buildings and the beginning of his next phase of daring architectural experimentation and expressiveness through ornamentation.
The Sprites designs are based on different geometric shapes - triangle, sphere, cube and hexagon.
Unfortunately most of the Sprites met a premature and unfortunate demise during Prohibition when historic site was demolished in 1929. But luckily a few were saved and eventually given to the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa as gifts. Now called the Biltmore Sprites, these were, in a sense, like the lost children of Wright.
Sprites sold by Merry Gardeners are reproductions authenticated by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. This version is 31 inches high without the pedestal, a stunning reproduction, cast in stone and finished in sandstone. It can stay outside all year round in any climate.
The pedestal is sold separately and not included in this price. Sprites become 42 inches high when on the pedestal. To buy, please see Midway Gardens Sprite Pedestal - item FLWSP.
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