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This is a shot of the interior of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed C.V. Morris Store (now the Xanadu Gallery) on Maiden Lane. The interior has a ramp that spirals around the periphery of the room; it was a precursor to and “trial run” for the Guggenheim Museum. The entire interior space seems to rotate beneath the luminous bubbles of a cast white plastic ceiling. The inside walls of poured concrete flow around this dome of light, marked by occasional lit portholes. The shop has a circular mezzanine reached by the spiral ramp. Setting off all this luminous pallor is the original curving built-in cabinetry that was also designed by Wright.

See my previous postings of the exterior of this building for more information on it.

Technical: Rotated slightly and sharpened.