Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Henredon Mahogany furniture from 1955 during the golden age of Mad Men a collectors dream! One table/nightstand and a pair of mahogany coffee/end tables designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and manufactured by Heritage Henredon Furniture in 1955. Classic Wright design with engraved Taliesin edging to perimeter. Table – H 23 in. X W 26 in. X D 27 in. H 58.42 cm x W 66.04 cm x D 68.58 cm. X D 26 in. H 35.56 cm x W 66.04 cm x D 66.04 cm. Condition is fair to good. Without question the greatest architect the United States has ever produced, Frank Lloyd Wright and his philosophy of organic architecture of buildings that exist in harmony with their natural surroundings had a profound influence on the shape of modern life. Wright gave us some of the most elegant and iconic structures in America: residences such as Fallingwater, in rural Pennsylvania, the Robie House in Chicago, and Taliesin, Wrights own home; and masterful institutional structures that include the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Whenever possible, Wright designed the furniture for his projects, to ensure an affinity between a buildings exterior and interior. Wrights wooden chairs and tables for his Prairie Houses of the early 1900s have sleek, attenuated forms, influenced by both the simplicity of traditional Japanese design and the work of Gustav Stickley and other designers of the Arts and Crafts movement. For Taliesin and several residential projects, Wright designed severely geometric chairs that are marvels of reductivist design. He revisited many of these forms in the 1950s in furniture licensed to the firm Henredon, adding a decorative frieze-like element to the edges of tables and stools. The works on these pages also show how happily Wright embraced new forms and materials. His desks and chairs for Johnson Wax have a streamlined look and use tubular steel to the same effect as designer Warren McArthur, who collaborated with Wright in the interiors of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. For the Price Tower (1956) in Oklahoma, Wright designed angular wooden desks as well as upholstered pedestal chairs made of chromed steel audacious furniture for his tallest completed building project. The beauty of Frank Lloyd Wrights furniture designs is that while many of us wish we could live in one of houses, his chairs, tables, and sofas connect us directly to his architecture, and to the history he made. The item “Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Henredon Mahogany furniture from 1955″ is in sale since Wednesday, September 25, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Advertising\Household\Furniture”. The seller is “josolinge-5″ and is located in Huntington Beach, California. This item can’t be shipped, the buyer must pick up the item.
- Brand: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Date of Creation: 2019
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Color: Mahogany