Lot Essay
This 'slant-back' design was also used in Wright's Oak Park Residence.
Although there is frequently an aesthetic parallel to be drawn between the work of Wright and Mackintosh at this date, the present example manifests a more fundamental, structural modernity. Much more than Mackintosh, it evokes the designs of Gerrit Rietveld, whose Red Blue chair of 1918, though created from a quite different standpoint, also incorporated simple right-angled elements and a solid slat back.
Cf: Frank Lloyd Wright. Preserving an Architectural Heritage. Decorative Designs from the Domino Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, p. 48, chair to initially identical design but with higher back.
Although there is frequently an aesthetic parallel to be drawn between the work of Wright and Mackintosh at this date, the present example manifests a more fundamental, structural modernity. Much more than Mackintosh, it evokes the designs of Gerrit Rietveld, whose Red Blue chair of 1918, though created from a quite different standpoint, also incorporated simple right-angled elements and a solid slat back.
Cf: Frank Lloyd Wright. Preserving an Architectural Heritage. Decorative Designs from the Domino Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, p. 48, chair to initially identical design but with higher back.