He even went to the extreme of having furniture physically built into the walls. The custom pieces, pricey and hotly collected, have found new homes in private estates or in museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. And given Wright's name, he says, the material sells itself. The Henredon line, a selection of more than 35 different pieces, revisits some of the architect's most iconic designs, including the spindled tall-back chairs that helped define the Prairie style. Careful Buying You can, however, go wrong buying Henredon.
Some pieces are heavy on upholstery, light on wood.
And some of the larger pieces are so hefty that their resale value is limited. But even at its steepest Henredon still might be a steal, once you take into account the sky-high market for Wright's custom furniture. According to Craig Miller, the curator who helped New York's Met create its Wright room and who is now at the Denver Art Museum, the secondary market really took off in the 1980s through advances in scholarship, major museum exhibitions, and dedicated collectors, such as Tom Moynihan, the founder of Dominos Pizza. Just a few years later, Moynihan paid over half a million for the same chair. The people who are collecting the Prairie material would not collect the Heritage Henredon.