Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel Candle Holder

About Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel Candle Holder

This beautiful brass and enamel Frank Lloyd Wright Candle Holder features a design inspired in Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for the Imperial Hotel, which reflect Wright's attempt to merge Western and Japanese culture. The expansion of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel was made to flag Japan's advancements by showing its ties to the west. Frank Lloyd Wright was enlisted to make a combination of Western and Japanese engineering. The imperial hotel was made with concrete and Oya (a gray-green lava stone), which had a broad decorative scheme and it facilitated many skilled carvers to work in the project. The strikingly symmetrical complex drew inspiration from the iconography and architecture of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, reflecting, as a result, a Mayan Revival Style. Engineered on a floating foundation with reinforced steel, Wright's genius constructing allowed the Hotel to survive the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 with minimal damage. Eventually, the Imperial Hotel was demolished in 1968, but the entrance lobby was saved and reconstructed at the Meiji Mura architecture museum in Nagoya.