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Frank Lloyd Wright, Arnold House Set of Modular Side Tables, Triangular, 1954

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Frank Lloyd wright, Arnold house set of modular side tables, Triangular, 1954. Four tables can be used together as a coffee table, two or three side tables or, of course, independently. These were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the E. Clarke and Julie Arnold House in Columbus, Wisconsin in 1955. These are not the mass produced triangular tables FLW designed for Henredon later in 1955. These are the original pieces from the Arnold House. The entire house was based on 60 and 120 degree angles and triangular/diamond shapes. Tables are crafted from black laminate and pine, each is marked with aluminum circular numeric tags. each table: 30 1/2" W x 26" D x 20" H The Arnold house occupies a large site on the west edge of the city of Columbus and overlooks the farmlands to the west. It was built in 1955 for E. Clarke Arnold, a successful Columbus attorney, his wife, Julia, and their growing family, from a design supplied by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Arnolds, like so many of Wright's clients, came to him for a house of their own after seeing a house he had designed for friends, in this case, for Patrick and Margaret Kinney, whose stone-clad Lancaster, Wisconsin house Wright designed in 1951. This low one-story home is built of Wisconsin limestone, redwood board and batten, and glass. It is one of Wright's diamond module homes, a form he used in the Patrick and Margaret Kinney House, the Richard Smith House and a number of other homes he designed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this design, all the angles are either 60°or 120°, forming equilateral parallelogram modules having 4-foot-long (1.2 m) sides. It was originally built with two wings set at 120° angles which gave the house a V-shaped plan with a living room wing, a bedroom wing, and a central core that contained the fireplace mass, kitchen, and utilities. This home featured a twist on the usual Usonian color scheme with Golden ocher floors instead of the signature "Cherokee Red." Within three years of completion, the arrival of twins necessitated the construction of a second bedroom wing. Wright approved this wing in 1959 and the plans were in preparation when he died in April of that year. Wright apprentice and Taliesin Fellow John H. "Jack" Howe drafted a second, partly revised design, which established the final Y-shaped plan of the house. The house continues to be occupied by descendants E. Clarke and Julia Arnold.

Creator:

Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)Depth: 26 in (66.04 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 4

Style:

Prairie School (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Aluminum,Laminate,Pine

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1954

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading. All original. Fair vintage condition. Some scratches and wear to tops with one top showing more signs of use including some losses at corners. Scattered indentations and other edge wear to pine bases. Structurally sound, sculptural & substantial.

Seller Location:

Brooklyn, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU4190327510062

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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.