Lot 8 : FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
SCONCE FROM THE DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
SCONCE FROM THE DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
measurements note
5 7/8 x 21 1/4 x 8 in. (14.9 x 54 x 20.3 cm)
ca. 1905
patinated bronze and glass
LITERATURE
David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1979, pp. 26 and 92
Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The ''Ausgeführte Bauten'' of 1911, New York, reprinted 1982, pp. 47, 50-51 and 53
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1902-1906, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1987, p. 108 (for a design drawing of the model)
Jack Quinan, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, 1999, pp. 23, 25-26 and 28
Jack Quinan, Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House: Architecture as Portraiture, New York, 2004, pp. 103, 116, 137, 149, 167-168, 181 and 184
NOTE
Wright employed this sconce design in various public rooms throughout the first floor of the Martin House, including the living room, dining room, reception room and entrance hall. The relatively few known examples of these sconces display slight variations in the configurations of the armatures and wall mounts. The example presently offered is believed to have been mounted to one of the large freestanding bricked heating piers that serve as room dividers throughout the first floor.
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