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Elmslie, George Grant [1869-1952. USA. Architect/Decorative Designer]

 

George Grant Elmslie was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 20 February 1869 and… subscribers only


Book designed as a testimonial presented to President James Burrill Angell on his retirement from the University of Michigan by the students and faculty. The book was bound in dark-blue French levant leather by Sarah Ellet Kendall and the silver cover was designed by Elmslie.

Book designed as a testimonial presented to President James Burrill Angell on his retirement from the University of Michigan by the students and faculty. The book was bound in dark-blue French levant leather by Sarah Ellet Kendall and the silver cover was designed by Elmslie.


Bibliography

1. Gebhard, David. ‘Louis Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie’ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 19, No. 2, May, 1960 pp. 62-68

2. ‘A Symbolic Book Bonding in Carved and Beaten Silver’ Arts and Decoration vol. 2, no. 1, January 1912 p. 107

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