Frank Lloyd Wright
Spindle Armchair from the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright
Spindle Armchair from the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois
Executed circa 1902.
executed by John W. Ayers Co., Chicago, Illinois
oak, fabric upholstery
24 x 25 x 27 1/2 in. (61 x 63.5 x 69.8 cm.)
Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois, circa 1903
Christie's New York, June 20, 1987, lot 85
Domino's Center for Architecture and Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Christie's New York, Important Works by Frank Lloyd Wright and His Contemporaries From Domino's Center for Architecture and Design, June 12, 1993, lot 83
Wolf Family Collection No. 1072 (acquired from the above)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Facets of Design, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, November 1990-January 1991; Birmingham Museum of Art, August 1991-October 1991; Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, November 1991-January 1992; Montreal Museum of Decorative Art, March 1992-June 1992; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, September 1992-January 1993
Grant Carpenter Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910, New York, 1958, p. 126
David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1979, p. 75 (for a related example from the B. Harley Bradley House, Kankakee, Illinois)
David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, p. 45 (for the present lot illustrated)
Thomas A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors and Furniture, London, 1994, pp. 56-57
