Frank Lloyd Wright Signature Collage

Name: Frank Lloyd Wright Signature Collage
Brand: Frank Lloyd Wright
Price: 4250 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Presented is an original Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation bank check, signed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The check is dated March 1, 1954, payable to Iovanna lloyd Wright for $30.00. A fantastic association piece, this check was filled out partially with a typewriter as well as signed in ink by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, payable to his own daughter. Frank Lloyd Wright was a highly influential American architect (1867-1959) whose mastery of space, form, and human-centered design revolutionized the field of architecture and earned him a place among the greatest thinkers and artists of the 20th century. Wright is best known for nature-harmonious edifices such as Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum. Iovanna Lloyd Wright, daughter of Wright and his third wife, Olgivanna, was born December 3, 1925. Iovanna was the only child of the architect and Olgivanna, who were married from 1928 until Frank Lloyd Wright's death in 1959. Iovanna grew up in Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. She studied dance and philosophy in Paris in 1949 with G.I. Gurdjieff. When Iovanna returned to the states, she taught classes in dance movement to her father's students at the Taliesin Fellowship, his school for architecture founded in 1932. She created many choreographic works and wrote a number of plays, fusing the two arts into what she called “dance-dramas.” Her dance-dramas were performed yearly during the Taliesin Festival of Music and Dance, with members of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra providing the music. Two black and white photographs accompany the check, a striking portrait of Wright and a photograph of the Wright and his apprentices at Taliesin West, as well as sketch of the famous Fallingwater house, in this one-of–a kind presentation. CONDITION: Overall good condition. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation business check, filled out in type and signed by Frank Lloyd Wright, payable to his daughter Iovanna Lloyd Wright for $30.00, March 1, 1954. In fine condition, with light show-through. Signature is dark and legible. Check measures 3 ¼” H x 8” W. Accompanied by two photographs and one sketch, all newly printed. Archivally framed in a custom-built black wooden frame with acid-free mats, brown linen top mats, silver spandrels, a custom plaque, and UV Conservation clear glass. Framed Dimensions: 38 1/2" H x 31" W x 1 1/2" D.

Creator:

Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 38.5 in (97.79 cm)Width: 31 in (78.74 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Paper

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1950-1959

Date of Manufacture:

1954

Condition:

Additions or alterations made to the original: Archival framing by Art Source International Framing, in Boulder, Colorado in July of 2023. Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Colorado Springs, CO

Reference Number:

Seller: AS2101stDibs: LU909736457092

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Without question the greatest architect the United States has ever produced, Frank Lloyd Wright and his philosophy of “organic architecture” — of buildings that exist in harmony with their natural surroundings — had a profound influence on the shape of modern life. Wright gave us some of the most elegant and iconic buildings in America: residences such as Fallingwater, in rural Pennsylvania, the Robie House in Chicago, and Taliesin, Wright’s own home; and masterful institutional structures that include the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Whenever possible, Wright designed the furniture for his projects, to ensure an affinity between a building’s exterior and interior.

Wright’s wooden chairs and tables for his “Prairie Houses” of the early 1900s have sleek, attenuated forms, influenced by both the simplicity of traditional Japanese design and the work of Gustav Stickley and other designers of the Arts and Crafts movement. For Taliesin and several residential projects, Wright designed severely geometric chairs that are marvels of reductivist design. He revisited many of these forms in the 1950s in furniture licensed to the firm Henredon, adding a decorative frieze-like element to the edges of tables and stools.

The works on 1stDibs also show how happily Wright embraced new forms and materials. His desks and chairs for Johnson Wax have a streamlined look and use tubular steel to the same effect as designer Warren McArthur, who collaborated with Wright in the interiors of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. For the Price Tower (1956) in Oklahoma, Wright designed angular wooden desks as well as upholstered pedestal chairs made of chromed steel — audacious furniture for his tallest completed building project.

The beauty of Frank Lloyd Wright’s furniture designs is that while many of us wish we could live in one of his houses, his vintage sofas, storage cabinets and armchairs connect us directly to his architecture, and to the history he made.