DETAIL OF LOWER STORY ARCHES
PERSHING SQUARE BUILDING, NEW YORK YORK & SAWYER AND JOHN SLOAN, ARCHITECTS
Showing carefully studied relation of terra cotta and brick in aspects of texture and coloring, the prevailing color being a soft buff, fire flashed with golden brown. This treatment in the terra cotta detail with the spirit of its modeling is reminiscent of the pre-Renaissance style of Lombardy. The roughened surface of the terra cotta will eventually tone down uniformly with adjacent brick and blend into soft harmony the pronounced spotting of the fire flashed coloring in these parts