Photo #5578-532, Olmsted Archives Flower Boxes Selmer-Larsen also designed several flower boxes for the Aldred estate. Many of them incorporated stylized natural imagery. Below is a flower box model in the shop and the finished version in the garden. 
Top: Photo #5578-530; Bottom: Photo #5578-553, cropped, Olmsted Archives
Design Costs
We can learn more about what Selmer-Larsen's designs cost from the photo below. Clients were billed for both labor time and materials. More intricate projects would also be more expensive. In 1917 Selmer-Larsen charged $120 to make a mold for a bird bath. The client would also have to pick up an additional cost to have the models cast in material such as cement.
Job #00273, Olmsted Archives |
Last updated: February 2, 2022