The Burlingame Library is a charming Spanish Revival style building, designed by architect E. L. Norberg and completed in 1931.The storybook mural was commissioned by the Burlingame Library Foundation to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Library. The Children's Wing is a large space with soaring, beamed ceilings, textured plaster walls, and a lot of odd angles. This presented a challenge as there is no one focal point to the room, nor is there an uninterrupted space where one might normally site a mural.
Design consultant and guild member Michelle Nelson brought Lynne Rutter into the project to create a site-specific work that would incorporated the room's architecture. In Rutter's design, the grates, arches, and doors were integrated into the painting, so that the architecture became part of the composition of the mural.
Faraway Castles, approx. 9 feet wide"The room becomes a story; its walls the pages of a favorite book."
The Burlingame Library is located at 480 Primrose, Burlingame. It's a wonderful building well-supported and well-used by its community, and a well worth a visit from you.
