The 116th Street – Columbia University station includes a bas-relief emblem representing nearby Columbia University.The Astor Place station is decorated with large ceramic beaver emblems, representing the beaver pelts that helped make John Jacob Astor wealthy.The South Ferry loop station is decorated by 15 bas-relief representations of a sailing ship on the water.Their ceramic artwork includes colorful pictorial motifs relevant to a station's location, for example: Heins and LaFarge knew what materials would stand up well to heavy-duty cleaning and scrubbing they worked with the ceramic-producing firms Grueby Faience Company of Boston and Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati. The name tablets in each station contained elaborate border tilework surrounding the tablet. Some of the tiles by Heins and LaFarge are for station directional information such as directions to exits, platforms of different lines and systems, and platforms of different directions. They designed name tablets that were made up of tiles with the station name in serif and sans serif roman lettering, with all of the letters capitalized. In addition to designing the artistic motifs, Heins and LaFarge also did much of the architectural work that determined the overall appearance of entire subway stations. John the Divine and the Bronx Zoo's Astor Court.
At the time of their hiring they had completed large projects at the Cathedral of St. They were part of the Arts and Crafts movement and worked in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, both of which were very much in vogue at the turn of the 20th century. Heins and LaFarge were both relatives of John LaFarge (brother-in-law and son, respectively), a leading stained-glass artisan of the day. Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge), starting in 1901 and continuing up to 1907. The earliest ceramic work was done by Heins & LaFarge (artists George C. Faience plaque with beaver at Astor Place
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