50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is quite impossible to consider the building one thing and its furnishings another..."Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1910 For Frank Lloyd Wright, design did not stop at the front door.  Every item inside a house or an office building was as important as every brick or stone outside.  Walls were tinted the restful colors of autumn on the prairie.  Furniture was often built in or, where it was "at large," mimicked the lines and materials of the building itself. Glorious windows took the place of blocky walls and brought nature right inside. Decorative objects were few in number but were designed to complement the architecture.  As "50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright" handsomely demonstrates, all of Wright's furnishings were meant to be integral parts of the whole composition-works of art in themselves. The fifty favorite furnishings shown here range from Wright's world-famous tall-back chairs to ingenious built-in pieces, from his revered art glass windows to lamps that have become classics, and from vases to china to spectacular textile patterns.  Nothing escaped Wright's attention.  He built dining sets that created their own room within a room.  He tinkered with chair designs for six decades, always searching for the prefect way to accommodate the act of sitting.  And he designed plant holders and fireplace kettles as rotund as balloons along with sculptures as tall and angular as a mile-high skyscraper. Throughout his long career, spanning the years 1887-1959, this internationally renowned architect worked to persuade homeowners to simplify and beautify their lives by simplifying their furnishings.  Choose just a few good things, Wright suggested, and go to the woods and fields for colors and materials that bring nature home.  A showcase for these and many more of  Wright's most important ideas for interiors, "50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright" superbly illustrates how the architect clothed his buildings as well inside as outside. Chapter One - Furniture Tall-Back Chair Husser Dining Set Slant-Back Chair Print Table Larkin Desk Set Martin Barrel Chair Robie Sofa Coonley Desk Irving Table-Couch Greene Settle Midway Dining Set Mori Chair Imperial Chair Hollyhock Sofa Hollyhock Dining Set Fallingwater Built-ins Johnson Wax Desk Taliesin Dining Set Cantilevered Desk Taliesin West Chairs Usonian Built-ins Music Stand Lovness Dining Set Rayward Furniture Chapter Two - Art Glass Roberts Window Luxfer Prism Glass Studio Window Thomas Vestibule Dana Windows Tree of Life Window May Skylight May Windows Coonley Triptych Taliesin Window Hollyhock Windows Ennis Window Pyrex Glass Tubing Chapter Three - Decorative Arts Winged Victory Copper Vases Pedestal Lamp Butterfly Lamp "Flowers" Sculpture Golden Mortar Imperial China Taliesin Lamp Glass-Less Light Fireplace Kettle Wood Screens Patterned Carpet Fabric No. 105