Loggia outside the Fine Arts Room at Detroit Public Library
Description:
View of loggia outside the windows of the Fine Arts Room at the Detroit Public Library. The loggia, designed by Frederick J. Wiley and executed by Mary Chase Stratton and Horace Caulkins of Pewabic Pottery, is made of "gres flambe" which means that the tesserae are of enameled baked clay and not of glass. The scene entitled, "Seven Ages of Man", represents a scene from Shakespeare's, "As you like it," within each arch a panel depicts each age, infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, old man and second childhood. The floor is marble and embedded with signs of the zodiac and swastikas. Recorded in lantern slide ledger: "D/Public Library-Loggia, c.2."
