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Taliesin Dining Table & Eight Chairs by Frank Lloyd Wright for Heritage-Henredon

About the Item

This rare solid mahogany dining set is part of the Taliesin collection that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Heritage-Henredon in 1955, which was produced for only two years. The round tabletop, edged with a copper reverse dentil design, sits on an X base, the legs of which repeat the dentil motif. Three 16-inch copper-edged leaves extend the table up to a 96-inch oval. The designer's signature stamp appears on the underside of each leaf. Complementing the table are eight angular Taliesin chairs in mahogany, whose seat backs feature the same dentil trim. The two armchairs measures: 23" wide by 22" deep; the six side chairs measure 19.5" wide by 22" deep. All are 31.5" high with a seat height of 18.5".

Creator:

Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer),Heritage-Henredon (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)Diameter: 48 in (121.92 cm)Seat Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 9

Materials and Techniques:

Mahogany,Upholstery

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1950-1959

Date of Manufacture:

1955-1957

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. The chairs should be reupholstered with new foam.

Seller Location:

Dorchester, MA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU837825951532

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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.