Frank Lloyd Wright Interiors and Furniture

Frank Lloyd Wright Style Furniture

'Conley Playhouse' Wall Clock in Solid Wood Case from the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection by Bulova. FREE SHIPPING	'Gilmore' Musical Wall Clock with Solid Oak Case from the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection by Bulova. FREE SHIPPING	Willits Mantel Clock in Wood Case with Walnut Finish from the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection by Bulova. FREE SHIPPING
This Frank Lloyd Wright-designed wall clock is an adaptation of a window from the Conley Playhouse painting. It features a wood case with a walnut finish. This article also has a blue metal pendulum and a protective glass lens	This Frank Lloyd Wright-designed wall clock is an adaptation of a window from the Eugene Gilmore house. It plays a Westminster or Whittington melody and features volume control and night shut-off. This clock comes in a solid oak case with a dark oak finish	This Frank Lloyd Wright-designed mantel clock is an adaptation of a window from the Ward W. Willits House painting. It features a wood case with a walnut finish. This article also has a geometric wood pendulum and a protective glass lens

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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