Description
Spindle Side Chair for the Lawrence Memorial Library by Frank Lloyd Wright
USA, c. 1905
Side chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Lawrence Memorial Library in Springfield, Illinois. Executed in oak with a vertical spindle back and square frame, it features a later upholstered cushion in a textured yellow fabric. The design shares architectural similarities with Wright’s concurrent Dana-Thomas House commission, also created for Susan Lawrence Dana.
Height: 29¾ Width: 19¼ Depth: 19¾
Seat Height: 18.5″
Provenance: Lawrence Memorial Library, Springfield, IL | Christie’s, New York, Important Frank Lloyd Wright and American Arts & Crafts Furnishings including Ceramics, 12 December 1987, Lot 105 | Thomas S. Monaghan, Domino’s Private Collection | Christie’s, Important Works by Frank Lloyd Wright and His Contemporaries from Domino’s Center for Architecture and Design, 12 June 1993, Lot 81 | Important Private Collection
Exhibited: Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from the Domino’s Pizza Collection, 1989–1992 (traveling exhibition)
Literature: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana House, Hoffmann, p. 104, fig. 160 illustrates this model in situ
