Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style End Table [SOLD]

This is a Prairie School style table modeled after the Frank Lloyd Wright School.  The maker is not known.  The top is square, there are layered wood panels on the sides, and the lower shelf extends a few inches out in front and back.

The Prairie School of Architecture developed from the innovative designs of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright and encompassed the period from 1900 until the First World War.  The Prairie School style continued after the War into the Twenties, but it never again achieved the heights of the pre-1914 period.

An integral part of the interior of a Prairie house was the furniture designed specifically for it. The architects envisioned a “total architecture” in which all aspects of the building—landscape, architecture, furniture, rugs, draperies, light fixtures—formed a unified whole, or in today’s usage, an environment. The architecture of the Prairie School, particularly that of Frank Lloyd Wright, is well known and revered, but the innovative interior furnishings have largely been neglected.  Just as each architect associated with the Prairie School had a personal style of architecture, so the furniture of each revealed individual characteristics.

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: from an individual from Santa Fe

Reference for Text: THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY at the University of Chicago

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