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Date:
1956
Title:
5) Gerald Sussman Residence Scheme II, Poundridge, New York,
Preliminary Sketches 1956 (Projects 1955, 1956).
Description: Lost Frank Lloyd Wright
Design Discovered - Sussman Scheme II (1956). Three negative diazo print of
Sussman Scheme II preliminary drawings, 1956. Designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright in 1956. They include: A) Perspective. B) Three
Elevations, South East, South West and North West. C) Ground and
Floor plan. The design for the second set of plans is dated
February 1, 1955.
It also included a set of eight
working plans for the house. Two weeks later, Eugene wrote to
the Sussmans from Taliesin West. “Dear Mr. And Mrs. Sussman: By
now you have received your plans and we hope you are pleased.
Sincerely, Eugene Masselink...
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Size:
24.5" x 18” each.
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Date: 2023
Title:
Burton J. Westcott Residence, Springfield, Ohio, Exterior and
Interior 2023 (1907 - S.099).
Description:
Set of 74 exterior and 59 interior photographs of the Westcott
Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907, completed in
1909-11. We were able to visit the house on an overcast day near
the end of October. When Frank Lloyd Wright published
Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe in
1910, he included two perspectives of the Westcott House. The
first, a perspective study for the Westcott House. Plate XVI
(16). This version is variation of the completed house, but
remained a study. Plate LIII (53) is the version that was
completed, a perspective of Westcott House, and a tissue overlay
of the grand and first floor plan, and a floor plan for the
second floor. Wright described the Westcott...
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Date: 1950
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright Bronze Portrait Bust,
1950, By John Karl Daniels.
Description: Limited edition cast bronze bust
of Frank Lloyd Wright, by sculptor John Karl Daniels. Daniels
(1875-1978) was a Norwegian-American sculptor. His home and studio
was on the grounds of the Van Dusen Mansion in Minneapolis. A
majority of his sculptures in bronze and stone are located in
Minnesota.
The bronze sculpture is numbered 12/100 and signed in overlapping
letters “JKD 50" in-mold to left shoulder. It is mounted on a black
honed and polished stone base with gilt-incised inscription: “Frank
Lloyd Wright – Architect.” Some reports indicated that Wright sat
for this bust in the sculptor’s Minneapolis studio in October of
1950. Text on back of bust: “Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950.” (Note: Back
top left corner of stone is damaged.)
Description: 5.0" Wide x 10.5" High
x 5.0" Deep, Bust: 3.5" Wide x 6.0" High x 3.5" Deep.
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Date:
1914
Title:
Midway Gardens Small Oval
Platter, Chicago, Illinois, 1914 (1913 - S.180).
Description: Small oval
platter. Designed for Midway Gardens, Chicago, by Frank Lloyd
Wright. Midway Gardens covered a city block and included the
exterior summer garden with performance stage and an interior
Winter Garden for year round entertainment. Wright designed the
complete structure: furnishings, furniture, sculptures, murals,
windows, dinnerware, monogram, a complete work of art.
The Midway Garden monogram and the design of the plate is by Frank Lloyd
Wright. The platter is bordered with red squares, approximately 0.1875" x
0.1875." On the inside edge of the squares is a black oval line. The red
squares are approximately .75 inches apart. The monogram is black lettering
within a black rectangle, with a small red triangle. Marked on the bottom...
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7 x 4.5
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Date:
1930
Title:
L’Architecture Vivante - Summer 1930, No 28. (L’Architecture
Vivante translates to “Living Architecture.”) Publication
Etablie Par Les Soins Des Editions Albert Morance, A Paris,
30-32, Rue De Fleurus. (Publication Established By The Care Of
Editions Albert Morance, In Paris, 30-32, Rue De Fleurus.)
(Published by Albert Morance, Paris)
Author:
Badovici, Jean
Description:
Published in French, this volume includes
two issues, Spring and Summer 1930, Numbers 27 and 28. The pages
and plates in this volume are slipped into a portfolio, stiff
boards, beige cloth spine, tied with ribbons.
Spring 1930 Issue: The Problem of the “Minimum House,” by Le
Corbusier and P. Jeanneret.
Summer 1930 Issue: “Frank Lloyd Wright.” In 1932, this issue was
published as a single volume,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecte
Americain (Sweeney 301).
Introduction: "Frank Lloyd Wright. Nous avons souvent montre
dans l'Architecture Vivante, que le sens de sens de l'utile
n'excluait nullement la recherche du beau..." (We have often
shown in "Living Architecture" that the sense of meaning of the
useful does not exclude the search for beauty ...)
The
32 pages (49-76), are single sheets, unbound, 17.75 x 10.75
folded to 8.87, 8 sheets. Pages 49-51 is text written by Jean
Badovici, and includes two...
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(Sweeney 229)
Size:
9 x 11
Pages:
Pp 49-76; Plates 26-50
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Date:
1940
Title:
Leigh Stevens, Auldbrass Plantation, Yemassee, South Carolina,
Ornamental Downspout, Circa 1940 (1940 - S.261-264).
Description: Ornamental Spruce Downspout for the
Leigh Stevens, Auldbrass Plantation. Frank Lloyd Wright designed
some of the first buildings on the property in 1939. Wright
originally designed copper ornamental downspouts for Auldbrass,
but copper was difficult to obtain so at Stevens’ request,
Wright designed ornamental wood pendants (FLLW #4015.19),
suspended at each corner between the downspouts. Wright wrote on
the drawing, “Print to Leigh.” When Wright published his
extensive article in the January 1948 issue of Architectural
Forum, Wright created a presentation drawing, including the
ornamental downspout, page 95.
When Wayne Andrews photographed Auldbrass Plantation in 1953,
the downspouts were plainly visible, and were still painted
white as late as 1979, see Auldbrass, Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Southern Plantation, DeLong, 2003, p.162-163.
When Joel Silver acquired Auldbrass in 1986, it was in
disrepair, and half complete. Silver restored Auldbrass,
completed unfinished buildings, and replaced the ornamental wood
downspouts with Wright’s original design, producing them in
copper as Wright had initially specified.
" 'Old Brass' was the name given to a tract of land in South
Carolina that includes over 4,000 acres. "In the mid 1930s the
Savanna River Lumber Co. Which owned the tract of land slid into
bankruptcy. C. Leigh Stevens took over the responsibility of
reorganizing the company, and ended up "with its shares held by
Stevens." Old Brass was one of many holdings owned by the
reorganized Savanna River Lumber Co. The modern history of
"Auldbrass" which Wright adapted from Old Brass started in 1939
when C. Leigh Stevens commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to create
a plantation complex of buildings for his southern home..."
Auldbrass, The Plantation Complex Designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright, Stevens, 1992.
A pair from The Domino’s
Center for Architecture & Design, sold at Christie’s, December
11, 1993. Price realized: $1,265 each piece. This piece acquired
from Toomey & Company, Chicago, Illinois. Providence: Auldbrass
Plantation / Important Private Collection / Private Collection.
Constructed of Spruce, painted.
Size:
65" High x 50" Wide x 2.25 Deep.
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Date:
Circa 1924
Title:
Taliesin II, Spring Green, Wis. Circa
1924 (1914 - S.182).
Description:
Real Photo Postcard.
View of the Porte Cochere fountain from the Northwest. Behind
the camera is the Porte Cochere and the sitting room in the
private residence. In 1914, the driveway to Taliesin came up
from the Southwest and entered Taliesin from beyond the Porte
Cochere. At the time, there was a single column supporting the
roof. Stairs were between the column and the fountain and are
visible in drawings and photographs in
Frank Lloyd Wright Select Houses 2, page 28 and 33. Also see
S#0124.32
for another view. The photograph on page 33 is published in the...
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5.4 x 3.5
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Date:
2023
Title:
Cedric G. and Patricia Boulter Residence, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Exterior and Interior 2023 (1954 - S.379).
Description: Set of 96 exterior photographs of
the Boulter Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954. The house is set into the hillside
in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati. We were able to visit
the house on an overcast day near the end of October. In 1952,
Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house for Horace Sturtevant in
Oakland Californica. Like the Boulter Residence, it too was
designed for a hillside. Working drawings were completed, but
the house remained a project. Frank Lloyd Wright resurrected the
design for the Boulter Residence, lengthening the living room by...
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ST#:
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Date:
1958
Title:
Architektura (Poland) - July 1958 (Published monthly by Arkady
Publishing House, Warsaw, Poland)
Author: K. P. (Note: The book review was signed
“K. P.” Initials did not match any editors listed.)
Description:
Book Review: The Future of
Architecture. Przysztosc Architektury (The Future of
Architecture). Wydawnictwo "The Architectural Press", Londyn
1955 r. (Publishing house "The Architectural Press", London
1955.)
The Future of
Architecture was published in 1953. A British edition was
published by the Architecural Press, London, in 1955.
Polish text: Ksizka ta skupia w jednym tomie rózne prace pisane
autora, rozizucone po licznych wydawnictwach, dzis prewaznie
wyczerpanych. Na stepie siazki najdujemy obserna „rozmowe z
przyjacielem" na tematy architektoniczne, dalej cykl wykladów w
Princenton (1930 r.), w Chicago (1931 r.), w Londynie (1939 r.),
a w koncu dwa artykuly: o pewnych as-pektach architektury
przysziosci oraz o architekturze bedacej wyrazem wlasnych dazen
Wrighta, która on sam nazwal „architektura organiczna". Nie
kuszac sie o streszczenie nader bogatego i rói-norodnego
materialu ksiazki, przytaczamy z niej szereg charakterystycznych
fragmentw. Uderza w nich wielki radykalizm F. L. Wrighta, jego
bezkompromisowost, a przede wszystkim subiektywna ocena
architektury epok minionych. Moga one bu-dzie rózne
zastrzezenia, lecz na pewno warto sie z nimi zapozna jako z
pogladami czlowieka, którego wydawcy nie wahali sie nazwa
najwiekszym sposród zyjacych architektów...
English
translation: This book brings together in one volume the
author's various written works, scattered across numerous
publications, now almost out of print. What follows is an
extensive "conversation with a friend" on the topic series of
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Size:
9.5 x 13
Pages:
Pp 301-304
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Date:
1900
Title:
Warren Hickox Residence, Kankakee,
Illinois, Art Glass Windows 1900 (1900 - S.056).
Description:
Set of two original art glass windows from
the Warren Hickox Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in
1900. Both the Hickox and Bradley houses are considered Wright’s
first prairie styled houses. The depth of Frank Lloyd Wright’s
design incorporated interior furnishing, carpets, built-ins, art
glass windows and landscaping, creating a complete harmonious
design. The Bradley House incorporated many design elements that
defined Prairie styled houses. Low pitched...
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Size:
Glass: 18" x 18.5" inches. Overall: 22" x 25" inches each.
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Date:
2019
Title:
Warren Hickox Residence, Kankakee, Illinois, 2019 (1900 - S.056)
Description:
Set of 44 exterior photographs of the Warren Hickox Residence.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1900. Warren Hickox, Sr.
purchased two adjoining lots and gave one to his daughter
Anna Hickox
Bradley (1900 - S.052) and the other to his son Warren
Hickox, Jr. In 1900, both hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design
homes for their properties. Warren and Anna had a sister,
Mrs. Charles Roberts. In 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright remodeld the
Charles E. Roberts Residence
in Oak Park (S.040). This was one of many projects Wright
would design for Roberts. The first project Frank Lloyd Wright
designed for Roberts was a house in 1892 (FLLW #9210). In
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ST#:
2019.68.1223 (1-44)
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Date:
Circa 1905
Title:
Frank Lloyd
Wright Studio Letterhead, Oak Park, Illinois, Circa 1905 (1897 -
S.004).
Description:
Letterhead for the Frank Lloyd Wright Studio circa 1905. Frank Lloyd
Wright Home and Studio were connected. He worked in the studio until
1909 when he traveled to Europe. Upon his return, he moved to Spring
Green.
Unused Letterhead, beige handmade paper with Fabriano watermark,
when held up to the light, has the appearance of laid paper, but
disappears when light is removed. Top edge uncut and deckle, other
three sides are trimmed. Letterhead stock matches envelope stock.
Letterpress in two colors on both sides, dark brown and red. Text is
on the front, the red monogram is on the back. Text on front, lower
left: “From Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. Forest and Chicago
Avenues, Oak Park, Illinois. Telephone Oak Park Fifty Three.” The
solid red square was Frank Lloyd Wright’s second monogram. His first
monogram was a Celtic cross within a circle, within a square.
In 1895
Wright installed a
carved
stone plaque
(2002.136.0519-4) outside his Oak Park office which included his
first monogram. He included it on his first letterhead. He also
included it in the design for the title page, lower right hand
corner, of
The Eve
of St. Agnes, and was added
through-out
The
House Beautiful.
Providence: Ex. collection of Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Acquired from
Pfeiffer by Kathryn Smith. Acquired from the private collection of
Kathryn Smith.
Size:
8.25" x 4.75"
S#:
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Date:
1966
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright, Pioneer of Organic Architecture (Egypt)
(Hard Cover DJ) (Published by National House for Printing and
Publishing, Egypt)
Author: Hammad, Mohammad;
Karim, Sayed
Description: Published in Arabic.
Volume reads from back to front. Text is all in Arabic. Many
photographs and illustration throughout. This may have been an
unauthorized edition. The photographs are of a poor quality. It
appears that the photographs were scanned from other books, not
original photographs. They have the appearance like a Zerox
copy. The cover portrait is a copy of the illustration and
frontispiece from Frank
Lloyd Wright, Rebel in Concrete, Forsee, 1959, and
illustrated by Guy Fry. Note: Text in Arabic. Translation to
English by the bookseller in Alexandria, Egypt, and by Google
Translator.) (First Edition) (Sweeney 1631)
Size:
9.5 x 8.75
Pages: Pp 231
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Date:
1967
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright,
His Life. His Works. His Views (Egypt) (Stiff Soft Cover) (Published by
Arab Renaissance House, Egypt)
Author: Mahmoud, Mohammed
Tawfiq; Fathi, Hassan
Description:
Published in Arabic. Volume reads from back to front. Text is all in
Arabic. Many photographs and illustration throughout. A few color
plates. This may have been an unauthorized edition. The photographs are
of a poor quality. It appears that the photographs were scanned from
other books, not original photographs. They have the appearance like a
Zerox copy. Cover illustration adapted from a
Frank
Lloyd Wright Foundation First Day Cover, 1966, which may have been adapted from an
earlier illustration. Cover spine is missing. Note: Text in Arabic.
Translation to English by the bookseller in Alexandria, Egypt, and by
Google Translator.) (First Edition)
Size:
6.6 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 946
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Date:
2023
Title:
Ingwald Moe Residence, Gary, Indiana, Exterior 2023 (1908-9 -
FLLW #0531).
Description: Set of 29 exterior
photographs of the Moe Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1905/1908-9, and most likely the plans were part of the
Evanston Model Housing Project. The exterior walls of the house
are covered in plaster and extends up to the roof line. The
sills match the light color of the stucco. The windows are
trimmed in wood, and trim is also used as a
design element between windows. Like the
Charles Brown
Residence, the front porch roof may have originally been
cantilevered. Mahony's original presentation drawing shows a
cantilevered roof. The 1911 Sanborn...
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Date:
2019
Title:
Charles A. Brown Residence, Evanston, Illinois, Exterior 2019
(1905 - S.110).
Description: Set of 45 exterior photographs of
the Brown Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905. The
exterior walls of the house are board and batten, and extend up
to the sills of the second floor windows. The horizontal band of
windows and stucco, surrounds all four side and extends to the
roof line. The sills match the light color of the stucco. The
windows are trimmed in wood, and trim is also used to as a
design element between windows. A striking feature of the house
is the roof that is cantilevered over the veranda. Like the
Davenport Residence (1901), the
house...
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Size:
Set of 45 original 23 X 15 high res digital
images.
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Date:
2018
Title:
E. Arthur Davenport Residence,
River Forest, Illinois, 2018 (1901 - S.068).
Description: Set of 50 exterior photographs of the
Davenport Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright January 1901
(FLLW#0101). In the July 1901 issue of Ladies Home Journal,
Wright designed
A Small House With
Lots of Room In It. When you compare it to the Davenport
design and floor plan, although larger, there are striking
similarities. In 1931 the house was renovated. Three not so
shuttle changes were made to the house. The trim around the
upper front windows, altering the roof line dramatically and
removal of the front porch. The lower half to two-thirds of the
exterior of the house...
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Date:
1911
Title:
1) Herbert Angster Residence, Lake Bluff, Illinois, Perspective
View 1911 (1911 - S.169).
Description: Designed
by Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin (Hillside), in 1911 after his
return from Europe (FLLW#1101.01). Perspective view of the
Herbert Angster Residence viewed from the West. The kitchen is
in the background on the far left. The entrance can be seen left
of center in the two-story section of the house tucked behind
the concrete urn. The covered porch in the foreground to the
right is off the master bedroom. A built-in flower box sets
between the two columns supporting the roof. The living room is
to the right. Text lower left: “Mr. Herbert Angster Residence.
Frank Lloyd Wright...
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Size:
10 x 7 B&W photograph
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Date:
1893
Title:
1) Municipal Boathouse, Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, Front
Elevation 1893 (1893 - S.022).
Description: Front Elevation for the Municipal
Boathouse on Lake Mendota. The Municipal Boathouse on Lake
Mendota, in Madison, Wisconsin, a recreational building and
storage facility, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1893. He
was 26 year old at the time and a draftsman for the
architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan. In March 1893, the
Madison Improvement Association announced a competition for
sketches of a boat house to be built by the association. Frank
Lloyd Wright submitted two designs, and both were excepted, one
for Lake Mendota and one for Lake Monona. The boat house for
Lake Mendota was completed by the Spring of 1894, but
construction of the lake Monona boathouse was put on hold due to
the depression of 1893. The Lake Mendota Boathouse was built on
the edge of a steep bank. At street level, the boat house
appeared to be approximately one story tall. From the lakeside
however, the size was much more impressive, rising 32.5 feet
from the shoreline.
From
the lake side, the two towers dominated the front elevation with
a large arched opening that led to the interior storage for
boats. At the base of each towers, a single centered arched
doorway lead to the interior of the towers. Access was also
gained by walkways on either side of the arched opening in the
center. The boathouse was cut into the hillside and the back of
the interior was semicircular. The roof supported the
semicircular loggia above. Boats could be loaded onto storage
racks via a "pivoted crane" that ran on a circular track
overhead. Text: "Front Elevation, Toward Lake. Of the Boathouse
On Lake Monona, For The Madison Improvement Assn. Madison Wis.
Frank L Wright Architect. 1501 Schiller Building, Chicago." FLLW
Foundation #9304.06. Courtesy of The Frank Lloyd Wright
Foundation Archives, Avery Architectural Library, Columbia
University.
Size:
8 x 10 B&W photograph
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Date:
1918
Title:
Original Handwritten Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Catherine L.
Wright, 1918.
Description: An original handwritten letter from
Frank Lloyd Wright to Catherine L. Wright dated October 2nd, 1918.
Wright attempts to persuade Catherine to grant him a divorce. She
continues to refuses.
On
June 1, 1889, Catherine and Frank were married in Chicago, Illinois.
She was 17 years old. Raising a family dominated most of her time.
In 1903, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house for Edwin H. And Mamah
Borthwick Cheney In 1909, Mamah and Frank left their respective
spouses and traveled to Europe, settling in Italy for about a year.
Upon their return in 1911, they settled at Taliesin in Spring Green,
Wisconsin. On January 2, 1912, Edwin announced his intentions to
marry Mamah's sister, his sister-in-law. On August 15, 1914, one of
Wright's recently hired domestic workers murdered Mamah, both her
children, three of Wright's associates, and a son of one of the
associates. He set fire to one wing of Taliesin, and murdered the
seven people with an ax as they tried to escape the fire. At the
time, Wright was overseeing work on Midway Gardens in Chicago.
Catherine Wright would refuse to give Wright a divorce until
November 13, 1922.
Immediately after the tragic death of
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Size:
13.125" x 4.375" folded to 4.56" x 4.375."
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Date:
1940
Title:
Clarence W. Sondern Residence, Kansas City,
Missouri, Two-Part Dining Room Table, 1940 (1939 - S.279).
Description:
Two original sectional dining room tables
for the Clarence W. Sondern Residence. Clarence Sondern, was a
laboratory director for a chemical company in Kansas City. The
Sondern house was designed by Wright as a Usonian home in 1939.
In 1944, Sondern moved and sold the home to Arnold Adler (1948 -
S.307). In 1948, Adler commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design
an addition that more than tripled the size of the house.
Besides all the built-ins, Wright designed chairs, tables,
hassocks and bed frames for the Sonderns. After the Adler
addition was completed, an article was published on January 7,
1951, in the Kansas City Star about the housewarming at the
Adler House. It included a photograph of the living and dining
rooms, and it is interesting to note that none of the original
Wright designed furniture was pictured in the space. Like other
Dining Room tables from Wright’s Usonian period, the dining room
table was modular in style. Sections could...
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Size:
Size: 26" tall x 24" wide x 30" deep (each).
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Date:
1900
Title:
B. Harley Bradley Residence, Kankakee,
Illinois, Original Dining or Sitting Room Leaded Art Glass
Window 1900 (1900 - S.052).
Description:
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1900.
The Bradley Residence is one of Wight’s earliest Prairie Houses,
and is considered by most to be his first. The depth of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s design incorporated interior furnishing, carpets,
built-ins, art glass windows and landscaping, creating a
complete harmonious design. The Bradley House incorporated many
design elements that defined Prairie styled houses. Low pitched
gabled roofs, broad overhangs, dominate horizontal lines, the
exterior finished in stucco and horizontal bands of art glass
windows.
The B. Harley Bradley House featured over ninety leaded art
glass windows. Art glass windows and doors throughout the house
utilized a variation of the same design. They are also more
complex than any of Wright’s earlier designs. This is the first
time that the design continues through a number of windows.
Multiple windows create a single design. The angles in the
windows mimic the angles of the roof line. Windows were executed
in three different lead cames, 1/2", 5/16", 3/16". The glass is
clear with accents of white and red glass.
The
skylight in the dining room is more elaborate in design and is
considered the most sophisticated and lavish art glass designed
by Wright and do not relate to the design of the other windows
in the house. According to Sloan,
Light Screens, 2001, p.94,
the skylights mirrored the size and placement of the dining room
table. A built-in china cabinet covers one interior wall. Glass
doors in the cabinet originally included art glass, but are an
entirely different design than the windows and skylight.
This
particular design can be found in the dining and sitting rooms,
and is the left pan when viewing it from the outside. The dining
room has five pairs of windows that open outward. The sitting
room has six pairs. Leaded art glass and wood. Provenance: B.
Harley Bradley House, Kankakee. IL.
Size:
Glass: 17.5 x 34.5 inches. Overall: 22 x
40.75 inches.
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Date:
1952
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright: 60 Years of Living Architecture, Munich, Germany
Exhibition (Published by the House of Kunst, a Museum, Munich.
Poster Design: Stefan P. Munsing. German Graphic Arts Institute,
Munich, Germany)
Description:
Original Silkscreen Poster produced for the
Frank Lloyd Wright: 60 Years of Living Architecture, Munich, Germany
Exhibition. Text: "Frank Lloyd Wright. Ausstellung, 60 Jahre
Arhitektur. Haus der Kunst - Munchen. 16. Mai - 15.Juni. 9-18 Uhr.
Markgraf-Druck K.G. Munchen 12. Entwurf, Munsing." (Frank Lloyd
Wright. Exhibition, 60 years of architecture. House of Art - Munich.
May 16 - June 15. 9am-6pm. Markgraf-Print Design: Munsing, Stefan P.
K.G. Munchen 12. Design: Munsing.) Designed by Stefan P. Munsing,
printed by Markgraf-Druck.
Sixty Years of Living Architecture,
The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (1951-1956) was a traveling
exhibition of Wright's work, consisting of Models, photographs and
original drawings. A Preview of the exhibition was held in
Philadelphia at Gimbel Brothers Gallery in January, 1951. After the
Preview, the exhibition was held in 9 different cities worldwide.
The Munich exhibition was in 1952.
The
cover of the exhibition catalog was printed in two color. Red and
black. The gray is a half-tone dot pattern of the black plate. The
poster is silkscreened using three colors, red, black and gray. If
the catalog cover is a true indication of the red plate, it has
faded on the poster. Acquired from an auction house in Great
Britain.
Size:
24 x 33.25
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Date:1963
Title:
Buildings, Plans And Designs,
Frank Lloyd Wright (Folio) (Published in Japanese, publisher unknown)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Published in Japanese, English and German. In
1910 Frank Lloyd Wright produced the "Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe
von Frank Lloyd Wright," published by Ernst Wasmuth, in Berlin.
Each set consisted of two portfolios with a combined total of
one hundred separate plates and tissue overlays. Printed in
German. Each plate was 25.2" x 16." Included in the portfolios
was a 32 page booklet.
In 1963, Horizon Press reproduced the portfolio as a single set,
same dimensions, in English. The order of the plates were
changed, and the embossed logo was dropped. The title was
printed in English, the German notes in the floor plans
remained. Tissues were printed as plates, numbering 100 plates.
The 32 page booklet was published in English.
This folio follows the 1963
edition, but is reduced in size and number of plates. Folio
boards are covered with a modeled paper. The cover has a title
sheet pasted to the front of the board. There are four cloth
ties.
Fifty plates in all, Plate 1,
Winslow; Plate 2, Stable; Plate 6. Wolf; Plate 7, Wolf; Plate 8,
Francis Apartments; Plate 9, Wright Studio; Plate 11, Heller;
Etc. Although some plates have been deleted in this volume, each
plate is number lower right, 1-50.
The booklet is printed in
Japanese and English. Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright. There are
four sections. A: Frank Lloyd
Wright’s Preface. (In English.)
B: Plate Commentary. (In
Japanese.) C: Terminology.
(German to English.) D: Frank
Lloyd Wright Chronicle.
Portrait. Last entry: 1959. 4.
9. His death. (First Edition)
Size:
Folio: 12.5 x 17.6. Plates: 17.1
x 12. Booklet: 7.1 x 10.1.
Pages: Folio, 50 Plates, Booklet: Pp 22
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1534.03.1021 |
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Date:
1953
Title:
Benjamin Adelman
House Dining Room Table, Phoenix,
AZ, 1953 (1951 - S.344).
Description:
Original two piece Dining Room table for
the Benjamin Adelman House. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in
1951. Wright designed a laundry facility and three homes for
Benjamin Adelman, and a home (two schemes) for his son, Albert
Adelman. Wright's first project for Benjamin Adelman was a
commercial building for his laundry and dry-cleaning business in
Milwaukee in 1945. It remained a project. One year later, 1946,
Benjamin's son Albert, approached Wright about designing a home
for him on a lot he owned in Fox Point, Wisconsin. Scheme #1
remained a project, but...
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Size:
The top of the tables are 32" square and
2.5" deep. The height of the table is 27." The legs are 8" wide
and turned 45 degrees. 8" up from the bottom of the legs is a
12" x 12" shelf that intersects all four legs at the corners.
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1987.126.0521 |
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Date:
1952
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Most Famous Architect. Rotterdam,
Holland 1952 (The exhibition was supervised by Architect J.J.P. Oud.
The interior was designer by Benno H. Wissing. The Exhibition Poster
was design by Benno Wissing and Jan A. Begeer. Printed in the
Netherlands by Kuhn en Zoon, Rotterdam.)
Description:
Original poster published for the exhibition Sixty Years of Living
Architecture, The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright,
held "in het ahoy' gebouw" (in the Ahoy Building), Rotterdam,
Holland, 1952. The traveling exhibition consisted of models,
photographs and original drawings. A Preview of the exhibition was
held in Philadelphia at Gimbel Brothers Gallery in January, 1951.
The world wide tour opened in Florence, Italy (June 1951), then
traveled to Zurich, Paris, Munich, Rotterdam, Mexico City, New York,
Los Angeles and Chicago.
From the Rotterdam Catalog: Ter gelegenheid
van hot het honderdjarig bestaan van de Acedemie van Beeldende
Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen is het mogelijk geworden met
bijdragen van Rijk, Gemeente en stadgenoten deze tentoonstelling in
Rotterdam to houden. (On the occasion of the centenary of the
Academy of Visual Arts and Technical Sciences, it has become
possible with contributions from the State, Municipality and fellow
citizens to hold this exhibition in Rotterdam.)
Architect J. J. P. Oud is bereid geweest zijn bemiddeling to
verlenen om deze tentoonstelling noor Rotterdam te krijgen en
belostte zich op verzoek van Frank Lloyd Wright met de supervisie de
Rotterdamse tentoonstelling. (Architect J. J. P. Oud was willing to
mediate in getting this exhibition to Rotterdam and, at the request
of Frank Lloyd Wright, took over the supervision of the Rotterdam
exhibition.)
De inrichting
word verzorgd door de ontwerper B. H. Wissing. (The interior is
provided by the designer B. H. Wissing.)
The poster was
designed by "Wissing - Beger," Benno...
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Size:
32.25 x 44
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0910.69.0521 |
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Date:
1932
Title:
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecte Americain. Extrait de "L'Architecture
Vivante" (Excerpt from "Living Architecture"). Publication
Etablie Par Les Soins Des Editions Albert Morance, A Paris,
30-32, Rue De Fleurus. (Publication Established By The Care Of
Editions Albert Morance, In Paris, 30-32, Rue De Fleurus.).
(Published by Albert Morance, Paris)
Author:
Basdovici, Jean
Description:
Published in French, this volume is a
reprint of an extensive article on the work of Frank Lloyd
Wright, first published in the French publication
L'Architecture
Vivante, Summer 1930, pp. 49-76, plates 26-50 (Sweeney 229).
"Frank Lloyd Wright. Nous avons souvent montre dans
l'Architecture Vivante,
que le sens de sens de l'utile n'excluait nullement la recherche
du beau..." (We have often shown in "Living Architecture" that
the sense of meaning of the useful does not exclude the search
for beauty ...) Pages in this volume are slipped into a
portfolio, stiff boards, cloth spine, tied with ribbons. The 32
pages are single sheets, unbound, 17.75 x 10.75 folded to 8.87,
8 sheets. Pages 5-7 is the text in written by Jean Badovici, and
includes two unidentified floor plans. Pages 8-30 includes
illustrations and floor plans of Wright's work. They include:
Unity Temple, Coonley, Heurtley, Thomas, Robie, Evans, Heath,
Taliesin, Allen, Imperial Hotel, Midway Gardens, McCormick,
Larkin, Gratte-ciel (Skyscraper - The 1923 Commercial Building
in Copper, Concrete, and Glass), American System Built Homes,
McArthur (Apartments), Lexington Terrace, Cutten, Horse Shoe
Inn, Como Orchards, Westcott. Of note...
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(Sweeney 301)
Size:
9 x 11
Pages:
Pp 32, Plus 25 Plates
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Date:
1928
Title:
Original Wedding announcement of Frank Lloyd Wright
and Olgivanna Wright
Description:
Original Wedding announcement of Frank Lloyd Wright
and Olgivanna Wright, at Rancho Santa Fe, California, 25 August 1928.
"Iovanna. Married, August 25, Rancho Santa Fe, California. Olga Ivanovna, Daughter of Ivan Lazovich and Militza Milan of Gettinje
Montenegro, To Frank Lloyd Wright, Son of Anna Lloyd-Jones and William Cary
Wright, Taliesin, Wisconsin, 1928."ť
Designed and calligraphed by Wright, then photographically
printed on vellum or rice paper and laminated to buff-colored card
stock. A portrait of their daughter Iovanna Lazovich Lloyd Wright
at upper left; one portion hand-colored in red (4.5 x 5.5"). Olga
and Frank were married on August 25, 1928 at midnight in Rancho
Santa Fe near La Jolla. The ceremony was held one year to the day
after Wright's divorce from Miriam Noel
Wright, and almost three years after their daughter Iovanna (shown in the hexagonal
portrait) was born (December 2, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois). They honeymooned in Phoenix, Arizona at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel.
A book was purchased from the daughter of
the Melvyn Maxwell Smith Residence
(S.287 1946) designed by Wright in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The invitation was in the book.
Size:
4.5 x 5.5
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