AN IMPORTANT OAK DINING SUITE

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AN IMPORTANT OAK DINING SUITE
DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOR THE JOSEPH W. HUSSER HOUSE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1899

The table of rectangular form with a checkerboard motif on the four edges of the top, the base comprised of two trestle ends featuring spindles; each of the eight chairs with gently curving crest rail joined to conforming stiles with eleven spindles terminating in the back stretcher near the slightly, out-turned foot, further demarcated by conforming moldings, with drop-in seat (87.13.1-9)--the table: 28in. (71.1cm.) high, 60in. (152.4cm.) wide, 54in. (137.2cm.) deep; each chair: 51 7/8in. (131.8cm) high (9)

來源

Lynn Kearny, Chicago, Illinois

出版

David Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage, E.P. Dutton, N.Y., 1989, pp. 30-31

展覽

Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, December 1989-February 1990
This exhibition travelled to:
Chicago, The Chicago Historical Society, March-June 1990
Buffalo, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, July-September 1990
Denver, Denver Art Museum, October 1990-January 1991
Philadelphia, Pennsylcania Academy of Fine Arts, February-April 1991
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, May-July 1991
New York, American Craft Museum, August 1991-January 1992

拍品專文

The first record of Wright's use of the tall back chairs enclosing the space within for dining is that of 1895 for his own house now known as "The Home and Studio" in Oak Park, Illinois. Chairs of similar proportions are first seen in Mackintosh's work of 1897. The Husser House chairs of 1899 surely show a great elegance and beauty which is evident in the Mackintosh examples. By 1902, however, Wright had moved on to a new more robust American interpretation of this chair concept which can be seen in the chairs designed for the dining space of the Willits' House in Highland Park, Illinois.