"From October 4th, 2025, to January 25th, 2026, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) presents Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design, the first exhibition to treat the architect's furniture as essential to his vision. Bringing together more than 40 chairs, many never exhibited before, alongside sketches, photographs, digital renderings, and newly constructed works, the show reveals how Wright's furniture was integral to the environments he created."
"The project is grounded in new research by architectural historian Eric Vogel, scholar-in-residence at the Taliesin Institute, who uncovered connections that recast Wright's furniture as experimental and often ahead of its time. 'When Wright rebuilt Taliesin after two major fires, he paired the new architecture with significant new and unprecedented furniture forms that were rejected by his clients at the time for their unconventionality,' Vogel explains."
From October 4th, 2025 to January 25th, 2026 the Museum of Wisconsin Art presents Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design, featuring more than 40 chairs alongside sketches, photographs, digital renderings, and newly constructed works. Architectural historian Eric Vogel uncovered connections that recast Wright's furniture as experimental and often ahead of its time. Rejected client commissions and lost designs were reconstructed by master woodworkers, including Wright's great-grandson S. Lloyd Natof, to make unseen works visible. Between 1911 and 1959 Wright conceived over 200 distinct chair designs across five design periods, serving as integral extensions of his architectural spaces from Taliesin East to Taliesin West.
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