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Frank LLoyd Wright Archives Commission NUMBERS

John Geiger identified over 6,300 Frank Lloyd Wright project drawings in his database. The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives is the primary source for the bulk of Wright project drawings. The inventory system developed by the Wright Archives plays an important role in understanding notes and other references found throughout the Geiger database. This search presents projects and drawing numbers according to the Wright Archives assignments. Drawings held in other collections may appear integrated into the scheme by Geiger through speculative placement indicated with a question mark.

INFORMATION FOR PROJECT NUMBER 3405

Design for a Metal and Wood Screen, "Machine Age Screen", project [No location] (1934)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.

Name of client: Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES/Item.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 1.

Drawing Number and Description

3405.001     Elevations of what appears to be two screens

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution Siry, p. 228.;Quinan, Jack. "Engineering the Organic: The Partnership of Jaroslav J. Polivka and Frank Lloyd Wright" (Buffalo and Erie Historical Society, 2001), p. 27.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1699-O].