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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Rug Design and Furnishings for Max Hoffman [] (1957)

Drawing: Design for a patterned rug

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5707.002

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper with graphite pencil; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/FA/Carpets.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 504] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 344] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 5, 1949-1959 (New York: Rizzoli, 1995).

Appears as a color illustration [page 21] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2006, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2006).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 292] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 186] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).