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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
Alteration of Grandfather Clock for Charles E. Roberts, project [Oak Park, Illinois] (1896)
Drawing:
Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9611.??1Note: 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: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Furniture, Loose/Gandfather clock.
Bibliographic Citations
Appears as a color illustration [page 108] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).
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