FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945) - photo 1
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945) - photo 2
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945) - photo 3
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945) - photo 4

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945)

Lot 341
09.12.2022 11:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 341 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945)

Important and Rare Three-Tier ‘Flower Table’, for the Living Room of the Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois, circa 1908

oak, metal castors

28 3/4 x 53 x 20 in. (73 x 134.6 x 50.8 cm)





Provenance

Christie's, New York, 12 December 1987, lot 126

Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles

The Barbra Streisand Collection, Christie's, New York, 29 November 1999, lot 494

Private Collection, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

G. C. Mason, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910, 1958, p. 194

D. A. Hanks, The Decorative Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1979, p. 101

Kelmscott Gallery, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago, 1981, p. 16 (for an illustration of the living room)

H. R. Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials, 1982, fig. 152

Dover Publications, The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The "Ausgefuhrte Bauten" of 1911, 1982, pp. 124-125

Dover Publications, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909), New York, 1983, pl. LVI(a) (for an illustration of the living room) pl. LVI(b) (for an illustration and floorplan of the house)

H. A. Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School, 1984, p. 66

D. Hoffman, Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture and Nature, Toronto, 1986, p. 59 (for a drawing of the living room)

N. Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design, 1986, p. 117

B. B. Pfeiffer, Y. Futagawa, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1902-1906, Tokyo, 1987, pp. 16-25 (for the plans, elevations, interior and exterior photographs, and a discussion of the commission)

T. A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Architectural Monographs No. 19, London 1992, p. 47 (for the interior of the primary bedroom)

T. A. Heinz, Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors and Furniture, London, 1994, pp. 109, 114 (for a related example of the table)

C. Robertson, Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken, Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington Massachusetts, 1999, p. 23 (for a discussion of Wright and Niedecken's collaboration on the present lot), 25 (for a drawing of the living room)

W. A. Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, Chicago, 2007, pp. 134-135 (for a discussion of the commission)
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