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Frank Lloyd Wright commissions

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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

Project Information

Office for Edgar J. Kaufman, Sr. at Kaufman's Department Store [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] (1935)

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. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

Name of client: Kaufmann, Sr., Edgar J..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Office/office building.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 24.

Drawing Number and Description

3704.??5     Elevation of mural and desk
3704.??5     Elevation of mural and desk
3704.??6     Office carpet
3704.??8     Mural light fixture
3704.004     Floor plan and elevations
3704.016     Elevation of mural wall
3704.019     Bar? with wheels for office

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Howe, John
Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: None recorded.