Word: inigo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
...Inigo Jones," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...
This week-end many a California Catholic business man will cross the threshold of El Retire San Inigo, putting a spiritual wall between himself and the cantankerous world. San Inigo, founded by Jesuits, is the latest unit in a fast developing chain of "retreats," which soon may gird Catholic America from coast to coast...
...well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English Art with itself...