(WEST BEND, WISCONSIN) – For generations, Frank Lloyd Wright’s reputation has rested on his sweeping architectural achievements: the Prairie houses, Fallingwater, the Guggenheim. But a new exhibition argues that the story of Wright’s modernism cannot be told without his furniture—especially his chairs.
This fall, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend presents Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design (Oct. 4, 2025–Jan. 25, 2026), the first exhibition to reframe Wright’s furniture as central—not secondary—to his architectural vision. Featuring more than 40 chairs, many on view for the first time, along with sketches, photographs, animated renderings, and newly constructed works, the exhibition invites architects and designers to see Wright not only as an architect of space, but as an architect of the human body at rest.
“Wright believed that a chair was never just a chair—it was a living design, inseparable from the environment in which it sat,” says Thomas Szolwinski, MOWA’s Associate Curator of Architecture and Design.
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