(WEST BEND, WISCONSIN) – Frank Lloyd Wright’s archival chair designs have been realized for the first time.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s unrealized chair designs are being produced for the first time in a new exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Working with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and a team of artisans, the museum has recreated more than a dozen pieces, including aluminum café chairs originally conceived for the Guggenheim and the origami armchair Wright designed in the 1940s. The show surveys 40 works across five decades, tracing how Wright used furniture to test ideas about architecture and organic design. By foregrounding chairs that had long remained drawings in the archive, the exhibition positions Wright’s lesser-known furniture within a broader history of modern design.
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