A Fine Oak Three-Tier "Flower Table"

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN COLLABORATION WITH GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN OF NIEDECKEN-WALBRIDGE, PROBABLY EXECUTED BY THE F.H. BRESLER COMPANY, FOR THE LIVING ROOM OF THE AVERY COONLEY HOUSE, RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1908

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A Fine Oak Three-Tier "Flower Table"
Frank Lloyd Wright in Collaboration with George Mann Niedecken of Niedecken-Walbridge, Probably Executed by The F.H. Bresler Company, for the Living Room of the Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois, circa 1908
28in. (73cm.) high, 53in. (134.6cm.) wide, 20in. (50.8cm.) deep

Provenance

Christie's New York, December 12, 1987, lot 126

Literature

Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design, 1986, p. 190. See also: David A. Hanks, The Decorative Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1979, p. 101; Henry Russell Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials, 1982, fig. 152; Dover Publications, The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (The Ausgefuhrte Bauten of 1911), 1982, pp. 124-125; Grant Carpenter Mason, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910, 1958, p. 194; Dover Publications, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright (The Ausgefuhrte Bauten of 1910), 1983, pl. LVI(b); H. Allen Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, 1984, p. 66.

Lot Essay

cf. Cheryl Robertson, Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken, Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum of National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1999, p. 23 for a discussion of Wright and Niedecken's collaboration on the 'Flower Table' and p. 24 for an illustration of Niedecken's handsome presentation drawing fo the 'FLOWER TABLE FOR THE SECOND FLOOR HALL.'

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