Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture and Interiors

Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture

Authentic, fully licensed products of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Each piece is engraved with a serial number and Wright’s signature. Made in the USA

Frank Lloyd Wright® Barrel Chair	Frank Lloyd Wright® Recliner
Frank Lloyd Wright believed that “every chair must be designed for the building it will be in.” In the case of his Barrel Chair (1937) he reworked a 1904 design to fit Wingspread, the Wisconsin home Wright designed for Herbert F. Johnson. It’s been suggested that Barrel was Wright’s favorite chair and that he used them in his own dining room. The Barrel Chair is an authentic, fully licensed product of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation	After learning this Recliner (1912) had been discontinued, we worked with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to bring it back into production. Wright originally designed this Recliner, along with a Sofa that we’ve also brought back, for the William B. Greene House in Illinois. The design, which originally used a series of moveable pegs to provide various backrest angles, now has a simple sliding mechanism that allows the user to remain seated while changing positions. This Recliner is an authentic, fully licensed product of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Frank Lloyd Wright® Sofa

After learning this Sofa (1912) had been discontinued, we worked with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to bring it back into production. Wright originally designed this Sofa, along with a Recliner that we’ve also brought back, for the William B. Greene House in Illinois. This Sofa is an authentic, fully licensed product of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Frank Lloyd Wright Style Accessories

Frank Lloyd Wright Barrel Floor Globe	Frank Lloyd Wright San Marcos Desktop Globe	Frank Lloyd Wright Hexagon Desktop Globe
An adaptation the famous "Barrel Chair", one of the most universally recognized designs in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives	Named for a an accent table designed for the San Marcos Resort Hotel in 1928. This decorative globe's stand recreates the 60° angled legs and hexagonal top of that striking table	Represents Wright's frequent use of multiple geometric shapes — the globe is circular, the base is triangular, and the globe support frame is hexagonal

9" Frank Lloyd Wright Desktop Globe	Frank Lloyd Wright Floor Globe
The stand of this 9" Frank Lloyd Wright Desktop Globe is an adaptation of drawings found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. The design is closely based on the Tabouret table that Wright created for the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, in 1903	Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 1900s, this floor globe is a concept that was intended for one of his Prairie Homes but never came to fruition until now. Made by Replogle Globes, crafters of fine terrestrial globes for 79 years, the floor globe is based on a sketch found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. The globe stand exhibits the form-follows-function principle, strong horizontal lines, and simplified geometric forms that were hallmarks of the Prairie School movement.

Frank Lloyd Wright Interiors

Frank Lloyd Wright furniture was an integral part of many of his projects. (For more information see Frank Lloyd Wright furniture and architecture.) His object was not simply to design a building, but to create an entire environment. Furniture, stained glass and fabrics were controlled not by the client, but were defined by his vision and his desire to influence how people would live or work in his buildings. Now a singular example of Frank Lloyd Wright furniture is available in miniature for the furniture lover and design professional.

"Wright claimed to build "organic" architecture that seemed to grow naturally out of the surrounding landscape. He believed the internal space, furnishings and decorative details of a house to be intrinsic to its architecture. Many of his projects incorporated site specific furniture and fittings. These unified projects were intended to possess a natural "organic" beauty that would promote the life of the human spirit. Instead of walls, furnishings were often used as spatial dividers, thereby creating more open interiors and a sense of flowing space."

"Wright’s preoccupation with geometric forms and intersecting planes in his architecture, led him to develop a similar style for furniture. For example, a series of metal desks and chairs designed for the Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, were designed to be functionally and visually unified with their surroundings. They were also among the first metal items for indoor use that did not mimic wood. The chairs were made of painted steel with leather upholstered seats and rigidly geometric backs with square perforations. In addition to furniture, Wright designed stained glass windows, ceramics and glass, metalwork and textiles. Wright’s work became distanced from its Arts & Crafts origins as he began to explore the structural and decorative potential of industrial concrete blocks which he used in the design of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and four houses in Los Angeles."

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was born in Wisconsin in 1867. His mother, even before his birth, was determined that he should be an architect. He pawned some of his father's books in 1887 and left for Chicago where he went to work for Joseph Lyman Silsbee as a tracer for eight dollars a week. A year later, he left Silsbee to work for Dankmar Adller and Louis Sullivan. He acknowledged Sullivan as his Lieber Meister (beloved master) and worked for him until 1893. Wright built a home near Spring Green, Wisconsin in 1911. He called it Taliesin, Welsh for "shining brow." He built Taliesin West in Arizona in 1938. His school wintered there.

Over the course of his career, Wright designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the Johnson Wax Building, the Guggenheim Museum, and numerous houses, including Fallingwater near Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and the Usonian house. Wright often designed every detail of a house, including furniture, lighting, and window detail. Some of the most exquisite art glass is found in Prairie Style homes.

Wright died in 1959 before the Guggenheim was completed. He is buried at Taliesin. He is the first true modern architect and one of the greatest of the twentieth century.

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