Details
A SPINDLE-SIDED HEXAGONAL CHAIR
DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, PROBABLY EXECUTED BY JOHN W. AYERS CO., FOR THE FRANCIS W. LITTLE HOUSE, PEORIA, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1902
The five sides with spindles descending from the even sides to the stretchers (87.10.06)--23in. (58.5cm.) high, 26 3/4in. (68cm.) deep, 25 in. (63.5cm.) wide
DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, PROBABLY EXECUTED BY JOHN W. AYERS CO., FOR THE FRANCIS W. LITTLE HOUSE, PEORIA, ILLINOIS, CIRCA 1902
The five sides with spindles descending from the even sides to the stretchers (87.10.06)--23in. (58.5cm.) high, 26 3/4in. (68cm.) deep, 25 in. (63.5cm.) wide
Provenance
Christie's, New York, June 20, 1987, lot 85
Literature
David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, E.P. Dutton, N.Y., 1979, p. 75 for an illustration of the hexagonal chair with paneled sides designed for the B. Harley Bradley house, Kankakee, Illinois in 1900 which preceded the present example as well as that produced for the Susan Lawrence Dana house, Springfield, Illinois of nearly identical design illustrated in Grant Carpenter Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, N.Y., 1958, p. 126