Lot 360 : FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Frank Lloyd Wright - 1869-1959

Auction Location: United States of America - 2004
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Title:

AN IMPORTANT NINE-DRAWER CHEST OF DRAWERS FROM THE MASTER BEDROOM OF THE FRANCIS W. LITTLE HOUSE, PEORIA, ILLINOIS

Description:

ca. 1903

oak with brass drawer pulls

Dimensions:

70 x 22 7/8 x 27 3/8 in. (177.8 x 58.1 x 69.5 cm)

Provenance:

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN AND JUDY ANGELO

Christie's New York, June 20, 1987, lot 81
The Domino's Center for Architecture and Design

Exhibited:

Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, Seattle Art Museum, December 1989-February 1990
The Chicago Historical Society, March-June 1990
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, July-September 1990
Denver Art Museum, October 1990-January 1991
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February-April 1991
Dallas Museum of Art, May-July 1991
American Craft Museum, New York, August 1991-January 1992

Published:

ILLUSTRATED
probably executed by John W. Ayers Company, Chicago

David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 46-47

Notes:

Although Wright often designed free-standing furniture, he preferred built-in furniture integral to the architecture. This chest displays characteristics of both. Although meant to stand alone, the strong rectilinear design gives the chest the appearance of an architectural element within a room. As with most of the furnishings from the Little house, this chest is related to the Dana house furniture, as seen, for instance, in the delicate, rib-like molding on each of the four sides. Wright also designed a secretary for the Little house which shares the same overall form and proportions as this chest. The secretary is fitted with a mirrored door above a drop-front desk and five bottom drawers. In its original position this chest and its companion secretary flanked the fireplace in the master bedroom, which is shown on Wright's surviving blueprint plan.

David A. Hanks