Flatiron Building wedge
— — a building shaped like the corner it stands on.
Not only on a wall.
“The wedge end of the Fuller Building, finished in 1902, where Fifth Avenue meets Broadway at 23rd Street. Twenty-two stories of limestone and terra-cotta on a steel frame, the prow narrowing to about six and a half feet. Daniel Burnham's Chicago office drew it; New Yorkers nicknamed it the Flatiron for the household tool it resembled, and the name stuck. The triangle of pavement in front, now Flatiron Plaza, became one of the most photographed corners in the country. from the studio
Flatiron Building wedge, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, occupies the triangular block bounded by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd and 23rd Streets in Manhattan's Flatiron District. Completed in 1902 to a design by Daniel Burnham of Chicago, it rises 22 stories and about 285 feet, with a Beaux-Arts limestone and terra-cotta facade over a steel skeleton. Its plan is a long, narrow triangle, the prow at the north corner narrowing to roughly 6.5 feet across. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
The skin is limestone at the base and glazed terra-cotta above, organized in classical three-part composition of base, shaft, and capital, with a heavily ornamented cornice. The steel frame underneath was a relatively new technology in 1902, and the building's slender triangular footprint made it an early demonstration of what a steel skeleton could do where masonry alone could not. The prow corner became a magnet for street photographers almost immediately; Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz both made images of it within a few years of completion that helped fix it in the New York imagination.
The interior has been closed to the public since 2019 while the building undergoes a long-term conversion to residential use, but the exterior remains one of the most accessible landmarks in the city. The view most associated with the building is from the north, looking south down Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they converge. Flatiron Plaza, the pedestrian triangle across 23rd Street, was created in 2008 and offers benches and a clear sightline of the prow. The 23rd Street station on the N, R, and W subway lines opens directly opposite.