Frank Gehry Icehenge Liquidation

Security theater prop: Frank Gehry’s Icehenge desk looking its absolute best, images all via Freeman’s I knew but didn’t really clock that Frank Gehry made his massive cast glass security guard station specifically for the lobby of Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Inland Steel Building in Chicago. That realization came from reading the auction listing: “Although conceived specifically for its site, Gehry reportedly entertained the possibility of reconfiguring the 16 elements over time, allowing the work to evolve over time and in new settings.” Now that you mention it this is a helluva thing to have put in front of this perfect Richard Lippold sculpture, but I guess they had to put something. s/o to the mirror finish chrome cabinet on the lower left Which, hmm, “reportedly entertained the possibility” better be enough to work with, because Gehry’s dead; his partners defaulted on the $56 million mortgage; New York Life seized the building in 2025; and the security desk known as Icehenge is…