Chicago Loop / Radiant One - by Richard Lippord

Radient One - by Richard Lippord

Radiant One - by Richard Lippord

Installed: 1958

A group of red, gold and silver wires support a  stainless steel form

set above a reflecting pool

Location: Inland Steel Building Lobb

 30 W Monroe Street, Chicago, IL

Commissioned by The Inland Steel Corporation.

The building and the sculpture were designated as Chicago Landmark in 1998

Radient One - by Richard Lippord

This is very beautiful!

One of the first pieces of sculpture by a contemporary American artist

 to be put at a public space in Chicago..

Ref: Chicago's Public Art by Ira J. Bach & Mary Lackritz Gray.

Radient One - by Richard Lippord

The Inland Steel building was the first stainless steel skyscraper in the city. The company wanted an imposing symbol made of steel to enhance the stainless steel clad headquarters building it was constructing. They commissioned Richard Lippord for the work. Lippord had received a degree in industrial design from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1937. For Lippord this was the first big commission and he was consulted very early in the planning of the building. The architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Leigh Block, then vice-president of Inland Steel, even agreed to push back the lobby wall eight feet to grant Lipport more space for the reflecting pool sculpture

The building and the sculpture were designated as Chicago Landmark in 1998.

Radient One - by Richard Lippord

Radient One - by Roichard Lippord