A COPPER WEED HOLDER

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A COPPER WEED HOLDER
DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, EXECUTED BY JAMES A. MILLER AND BROTHER, POSSIBLY FOR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S HOME AND STUDIO, OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1895

With a very long and slender shaft of four slightly indented sides supported by a square knop, each side with recessed panel stepping down to an oval protrusion turned an eighth of a turn from the shaft, the four sided base repeating the plane of the shaft (86.26.01)--28in (71.1cm.) high
出版
David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage, E.P. Dutton, N.Y., 1989, pp. 24-25; other examples shown in David Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, E.P. Dutton,N.Y., pp.20,33,70; Robert Judson Clark, Ed., The Arts & Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972, p. 68; Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America, Rizzoli, N.Y., 1978, p. 182; Brian A. Spencer, The Praire School Tradition, Whitney Library of Design, N.Y., 1979, p. 51 for illustrations of other examples

拍品專文

According to David Hanks, the 'weed holder' was probably designed subsequent to Frank Lloyd Wright establishing an independent practice in 1893. Its first known appearance in photographs is in the 1895 photograph of the Oak Park octagonal studio.