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Re: Free Plan: Arts-and-Crafts Inspired Chair

The comments about proportion are understandable but taken into account that the Frank Lloyd Wright Dining Chair (accssion # 1978.189)designed for Ward Winfield Willits has similar dimensions (55 3/4" X 17" X 18 1/2") I can see where Rex was coming from. That said, I doubt that Wright felt his furniture was intended to be comfortable or much more than an extension of his interior architecture. They were always secondary artifacts to the overall rhythm of interior spaces. Taken out of that context his dining chairs are design that happen to look like chairs.

By his own accounting FLW wasn't hiding his bias.

"Human use and comfort should not be taxed to pay dividends on any designer's idiosyncrasy."(Wright, The Natural House, 1954, page 44)

"All my life my legs have been banged up somewhere by the chairs I have designed." (Wright, The Natural House, pages 172-173)

His arrogance was legendary, his funriture usually pretty uncomfortable but he is still the benchmark for the style. Go figure.

posted: 10:32 am on December 16th