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V. C. Morris Gift Shop

Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Place
San Francisco, California, United States
Construction
1948–49
Design / archive date
1948
Catalogue reference
FLWFA 4824 / S.310
V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 1
Jet Lowe , HABS photographer · Public domain · Original photograph source

V.C. Morris Gift Shop — by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located at 140 Maiden Lane, Union Square, San Francisco, California . Image (1981): HABS −Historic American Buildings Survey in San Francisco .

V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 2
Jet Lowe · Public domain · Original photograph source

V. C. Morris Gift Shop , 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - view from near top of ramp down to first floor. Historic American Buildings Survey—HABS image.

V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 3
brandon schauer from San Francisco · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original photograph source

Entrance portal to Frank Lloyd Wright's V.C. Morris Gift Shop — in the Union Square district of San Francisco. A precedent for the Guggenheim in NYC. On PeterMe's tour of SF

V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 4
Jet Lowe · Public domain · Original photograph source

V. C. Morris Gift Shop, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA - interior, general view from base of ramp. Historic American Buildings Survey—HABS image.

V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 5
Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original photograph source

V.C. Morris Store, Maiden Lane, San Francisco, California, USA. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

V. C. Morris Gift Shop — photograph 6
Jet Lowe, HABS photographer · Public domain · Original photograph source

V. C. Morris Gift Shop, 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Architecture & history

The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype, or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

All of the built-in furniture is constructed out of black walnut, is original to the renovation, and was designed by Manuel Sandoval, who apprenticed and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright.

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