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Willits House Dining Room Armchair

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Type
Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date
ca. 1902
Accession number
2012.15.1
Designer
Frank Lloyd Wright(Opens in new tab) (American, 1867–1959)
Dimensions
overall: 45 × 23 × 20 in. (114.3 × 58.4 × 50.8 cm.)
Medium
oak
Description
Dark-stained oak armchair with leather seat cushion.
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with the Virginia Steele Scott Acquisition Fund
Object copyright
© Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Department
American Art
Find out more
View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
Wright first created tall-back dining room chairs in 1895 for his own house in Oak Park, Illinois. By 1902, Wright had moved on to a new, more robust interpretation of the design for Ward W. Willits' house in Highland Park, Illinois. The Willits house chair is somewhat more subtle than its prototype, with slight flairs to the back, top and feet.

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