Although the owners of condominiums in the building where the Glasner Studio is housed at 1734 N. Wells St. are fighting each other in court, one thing that they agree on, along with historians and art enthusiasts, is that the unit is a Chicago treasure and Edgar Miller’s masterwork.
The condominium where it is housed consists of three adjacent buildings that share a courtyard, but the gem is Unit 8, a four-story, 3,000-square-foot space adorned with artwork — on its walls and in the construction of the unit itself. Known today as The Glasner Studio, it has hand-wrought woodwork, bas-relief friezes, painted frescoes, tile mosaics and art glass windows all created by Miller, many of which are recognized as important artworks in their own right.
