Box Chairs | Bonhams & Butterfields

Schätzpreis: 6000-8000 US$

Auktion:
20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts

Verkaufsdatum: 2004-06-27

Ort der Auktion:
Los Angeles

Los Nummer: 1100

Design

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architonic ID

4104698

A Pair of Frank Lloyd Wright Oak Box Chairs
Commissioned for the Benjamin Adelman residence, Phoenix, Arizona, Circa 1951
With printed upholsteries.
Height of each 30in, width 33.5in, depth 36in
The Adelman residence, situated adjacent to the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, is an example of the Usonian Automatic design which became the benchmark of Frank Lloyd Wright design in the early 1950s.
For photographs and a description of the Benjamin Adelman residence, see William Allin Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1982, p. 344.