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Xanadu Gallery, Union Square
Frank Lloyd Wright's building off Union Square was designed in 1948 as a gift shop for V.C. Morris, a china and silver boutique. The avant-garde building challenged the idea that a store should have windows in front to display goods, instead the building lures visitors with a circular, flowing portal. The building was the prototype for the Guggenheim Museum, built eleven years later. The gallery's interior features the same ambulatory, spiral ramp as the Guggenheim. Today the building houses the Xanadu Gallery offering museum quality antiquities and art from around the world.
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