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Antique Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Chair Desk Larkin Admin Building Buffalo NY

Antique Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Chair Desk Larkin Admin Building Buffalo NY

Antique circa 1915 chair desk designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for install in the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Larkin Administration Building Buffalo NY. Historic Building and contents scrapped in typical WNY fashion, demolished during the early 1950′s. This example was removed by an engineer just prior to demolition of the building. Punched and folded steel construction with detachable cast iron feet by Van Dorn Iron Ohio USA. Attached canti lever swing out folding chair. Original stuffing and black leather upholstery at the chair seat and back. The desktop is not original, a wood top is currently bolted in place. The original top was poured magnesite, long gone, removed by the previous owner to allow for the install of the current wood top. Most, if not all desks, were used as bench lathe mount benches in the workshop after removal from the building. NY state did remove and store the FLW building contents for decades after the building was demolished only to later SCRAP IT ALL in the early 1970′s.