Frank Lloyd Wright "Executive" armchair from the offices of the Harold C. Price Co. Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma circa 1956 Painted steel, rubber, fabric, vinyl. 33 x 28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (83.8 x 72.4 x 54.6 cm) Manufactured by the Blue Stem Foundry, Dewey, Oklahoma. Underside inscribed with 2648 and X10-157.
Provenance Harold C. Price Co. Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Private collection, Oklahoma, acquired from the above, circa 1981 Thence by descent Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Frank Lloyd Wright The Story of the Tower: The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest, New York, 1956, p. 130 David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright New York, 1979, p. 166 David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, p. 118 Anthony Alofsin Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Richard P Townsend, Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, exh. cat., Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Yale University, New Haven and National Building Museum, Washington D.C., 2005, pp. 10, 37, 98, 95, 148-49 Jason T. Busch, Decorative Arts and Design, Collection Highlights, Pittsburgh, 2009, p. 182 for the example of the model in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Frank Lloyd Wright The Complete Works, 1943-1959, vol. 3, New York, 2009, p. 315 for a drawing, pp. 318-19
Frank Lloyd Wright "Executive" armchair from the offices of the Harold C. Price Co. Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma circa 1956 Painted steel, rubber, fabric, vinyl. 33 x 28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (83.8 x 72.4 x 54.6 cm) Manufactured by the Blue Stem Foundry, Dewey, Oklahoma. Underside inscribed with 2648 and X10-157.
Provenance Harold C. Price Co. Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Private collection, Oklahoma, acquired from the above, circa 1981 Thence by descent Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Frank Lloyd Wright The Story of the Tower: The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest, New York, 1956, p. 130 David A. Hanks, The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright New York, 1979, p. 166 David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright Preserving an Architectural Heritage: Decorative Designs from The Domino's Pizza Collection, New York, 1989, p. 118 Anthony Alofsin Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Richard P Townsend, Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, exh. cat., Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Yale University, New Haven and National Building Museum, Washington D.C., 2005, pp. 10, 37, 98, 95, 148-49 Jason T. Busch, Decorative Arts and Design, Collection Highlights, Pittsburgh, 2009, p. 182 for the example of the model in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Frank Lloyd Wright The Complete Works, 1943-1959, vol. 3, New York, 2009, p. 315 for a drawing, pp. 318-19
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