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Important Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Desk from The Levin House

Name: Important Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Desk from The Levin House
Brand: Frank Lloyd Wright
Rating: 4.9 (65 reviews)

$25,000

£19,040.54

€22,817.94

CA$35,658.72

A$36,310.57

CHF 21,010.67

MX$478,809.17

NOK 234,934.89

SEK 250,139.06

DKK 170,535.33

About the Item

A very rare and important piece of architectural history an original desk from the Levin residence an early Usonian house. In 1946 a group of four employees from the Upjohn company bought 47 acres outside of Kalamazoo Michigan and contacted the architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design and build homes on the site. The first house built was for Robert and Rea Levin, constructed in 1948 on the grounds now known as Parkwyn Village and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. There were only a few pieces of furniture from the Levin house that were not built-in and this desk was one of those pieces as most Usonian homes were constructed with built - in furniture a concept of Wright's after the Great Depression capturing his aspiration to create a democratic distinctly national style that was affordable and furniture was just another expense. This unique desk being one of those few pieces was made of different species of wood that Wright picked up off the building site to create this rare museum quality artifact. Remaining in the Levin family it's entire life the father when the house was sold took the four pieces of furniture as a keepsake reminder of the time he had with the architect and with his family in his prized house. Providence for the desk is, original to the Levin house 2816 Taliesin Drive Kalamazoo Michigan, to the wife Rae Levin after Roberts death, to son James Levin and to sister Ellen S. Levin this desk is from the estate of Ellen S. Levin purchased by Mainly Art Vintage Furniture. The last picture is of Frank Lloyd Wright, an owner of one of the other houses and Robert Levin owner of the desk at the time of construction.

Creator:
Frank Lloyd Wright (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 27.25 in (69.22 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 25 in (63.5 cm)
Style:
Organic Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1940-1949
Date of Manufacture:
1948
Condition:
In great condition having a sympathetic restoration.
Seller Location:
Cincinnati, OH
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU925152616922

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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 North Carolina firm Henredon, adding a decorative frieze-like element to the edges of tables and stools. Owing to a cross-licensing agreement between Henredon and Heritage at the time, Wright's lines of the era are usually labeled Heritage-Henredon.

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.

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