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Frank Lloyd Wright

rare Executive Office chair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
USA, 1956 enameled cast aluminum, leather, rubber 26 w x 27 d x 35½ h in (66 x 69 x 90 cm)
result: $22,500






Due to their complex construction, few of these Executive Office chairs were produced.
This is one of three known examples; one example remains in the Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma and the other sold at Wright in March of 2005.

provenance: Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK | Acquired directly from the H.C. Price family by Harry and Ruth A. Moore, Colorado Springs, CO | Thence by descent
literature: Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower , Alofsin, ppg. 138, 150 The Story of the Tower , Wright, pg. 130


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