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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

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


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

Drawing: Plan amd elevation of small chair for Kaufnann office

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3704.011

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: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: 29 x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Furniture, Loose/Chair/arm.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 53, page 63] in Wilk, Christopher, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Kaufmann Office (London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1993). Note by John Geiger: Blueprint

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 57, page 37] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 143] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).