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John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

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Type of Occupancy Category DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES/Item

Glass Tableware Designs for N. V. Glasfabriek, "Leerdam", project [No location] (1929)

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: Leerdam Glassworks.

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: 21.

Drawing Number and Description

3003.001 Glsss, wine

3003.002 Glass, cognac

3003.003 Glass, champagne

3003.004 Glass, sherry

3003.006 Glass, water