USONIAN LIBRARY TABLE AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1953

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
USONIAN LIBRARY TABLE AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1953
the table of pitch pine, the chair of mahogany laminate
table 27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76.5 cm.) deep, chair 37¼ in. (95 cm.) high; 18½ in. (47 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Gallery Fifty/50, New York
Private Collection, London

Literature

House of Wright is Previewed Here, New York Times, October 21, 1953 (example of chair illustrated);
The Chairs of Frank Lloyd Wright, exh. cat., Yale University School of Architecture, 1987, n.p.;
Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors and Furniture, London, 1994, p. 213 (for a period illustration of the dining room).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Examples of the chair design were first exhibited at the Usonian Pavilion of the Sixty Years of Living Architecture exhibition, New York, 1953. The model was subsequently incorporated in other interiors including the Paul Trier house, Des Moines, Iowa, 1956.

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