(WEST BEND, WISCONSIN) – From October 4th, 2025, to January 25th, 2026, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) presents Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design, the first exhibition to treat the architect’s furniture as essential to his vision. Bringing together more than 40 chairs, many never exhibited before, alongside sketches, photographs, digital renderings, and newly constructed works, the show reveals how Wright’s furniture was integral to the environments he created.
The project is grounded in new research by architectural historian Eric Vogel, scholar-in-residence at the Taliesin Institute, who uncovered connections that recast Wright’s furniture as experimental and often ahead of its time. ‘When Wright rebuilt Taliesin after two major fires, he paired the new architecture with significant new and unprecedented furniture forms that were rejected by his clients at the time for their unconventionality,’ Vogel explains. To make these lost works visible again, MOWA collaborates with master woodworkers, including Wright’s great-grandson S. Lloyd Natof, to reconstruct designs that were never produced during the architect’s lifetime.
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