Sold for:
$50,000
$50,000
USA, c.
1939 cypress 52 w x 51 d x 18½ h in (132 x 130 x 47 cm)
Auldbrass plantation, home of Leigh Stevens, was one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Usonian structures. This table was designed in cypress - the same material as the house - to be fabricated by the carpenters on site. Drawings for the house and its furnishings are located at the Taliesin Archives. provenance: Leigh Stevens, Yemassee, SC | Private collection, Chicago literature: Modern Architecture and the Plantation Nostalgia of the 1930s: Mepkin and Wright's 'Auldbrass Plantation' , Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XXXIV (D1975), pg. 318
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Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2010-12-14
