Chicago Fire
Creative Destruction

Melted Melted Melted
Melted

What the advancing inferno did not destroy, it still irreversibly changed. These artifacts demonstrate the fire's ability to take the simplest things and fuse them into strikingly appealing aesthetic objects. Clockwise, from the left, glass marbles (1919.9), screws, washers, and files.



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