Furniture, Marketplace, Prairie School
Frank Lloyd Wright
high-back chair
Frank Lloyd Wright
(American, 1867-1959)
high-back chair
Browne’s Bookstore
Chicago, Illinois, 1908 (demolished)
oak
15 1/2″w x 19 1/2″d x 53 1/2″h
Price upon request
Provenance:
Francis Fisher Browne, thence by descent
Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois (donation)
John Toomey Gallery / Treadway Toomey Auctions, December 8, 2002
Private collector
Browne’s Bookstore was designed in 1908 by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Fine Arts Building at 410 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Francis Fisher Browne’s dream of a successful literary salon for the elite of Chicago did not meet commercial success and closed in 1912.
SKU: P49