Incredible

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.

Their design is based on different geometric shapes - triangle, sphere, cube and hexagon - and is credited primarily to Alfonso Iannelli. Wright contributed the idea of "abstracting" them into more geometric forms. 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 and Iannelli.

These Sprites sold by Merry Gardeners are reproductions authenticated by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. This version is 31 inches high without the pedestal, and holds a baton. A stunning reproduction, cast in stone and finished in sandstone, of the full-sized model cast in stone, it can stay outside all year round in any climate. Color is Antique Grey.


Please note: your Sprite will not be created until an order is received and it may take 2-3 weeks before delivery.

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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