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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is recognized world-wide as one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. His work heralded a new thinking in architecture, using innovation in design and engineering made possible by newly developed technology and materials. His create ability extended far beyond the border of architecture to graphic design, furniture, art glass, linens, and decorative products for the home.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed well over 4,000 leaded glass windows and doors for over 150 of his buildings. Mr. Wright often referred to them as “light screens” a term that evokes Japanese shoji screens, where were arranged in bands like his windows. Wright created leaded glass designs for doors, skylights, back-lit ceiling panels, table lamps and wall sconces as well as for windows.
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FLW Waterlilies.
Item FLW091C
Size: 5.1" x 15"
This delicate stylized design of water lilies, common in the tranquil ponds of the Mid-west, is adapted from "Waterlilies", thought to be for an art glass screen, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895, but never produced. This early example epitomizes Mr. Wright's ability to incorporate themes from nature and exemplifies his philosophy of "organic architecture", the connecting of the natural world into his architecture as well as his decorative designs |
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FLW Willits House Skylight.
Item FLW092C
Size: 10" x 10"
This handsome stylized design, originally created by Frank Lloyd Wright, is one of four art glass windows in the complete skylight grouping in the Ward Willits House. The designs for the square arrangement of skylight windows has each individual window visually connected to the next by the horizontal and vertical white chevron details running all through the assemblage of windows, turning at right angles at each corner to create a unifying central accent. |
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Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers.
Item FLW093W
Size: 10 ½” x 13 ¼”
This stylized design of a desert landscape is adapted from “Saguaro Forms and Catcus Flowers”, one of a set of magazine covers Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Liberty magazine in 1923, but were not published at the time. Since then this design was re-created by Mr. Wright in 1955 for a rug, and was also adapted by the Taliesin Architects for an art glass window installed in the 1970’s remodel of the entrance to the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona where it can still be seen today. |
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Oak Park Home and Studio Skylight.
Item FLW094W
Size: 7" x 15.5"
This complex rectilinear design is adapted from one of the two matched pair of art glass skylights in the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's studio, attached to his home in Oak Park, and can still be seen there. The skylights, with their autumnal coloration, alter with the season and the changing quality of sunlight - and leading into his two story octagonal studio, must have been an impressive sight for first time clients at the dawn of the twentieth century. |
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FLW May Basket.
Item FLW095C
Size: 10" x 10"
The graphic design, "May Basket", was one of the twelve magazine covers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1927 for Liberty magazine. Although they were not published at that time, these designs have proved to be timeless. The design depicts fruits, flowers, and streamers of ribbon adorning a May basket and has the feel of the original colored pencil drawing. |
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FLW Tree of Life.
Item FLW096C
Size: 9.5" x 11.43"
The famed “Tree of Life” art glass pattern is found in several variations in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York (1903). The four-pot variation is found on the central landing of the Martin House stairway. This unique window has a commanding presence when viewed from either the first floor entry hall, or the second floor hallway. A series of stylized trees wrap around the perimeter of the Martin House second floor |
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FLW Heurtley Skylight.
Item FLW097C
Size: 3.33" x 14.3"
This handsome stylized design was adapted from the matched pair of canted skylights accenting the length of the living room in the home Mr. Wright designed for Arthur Heurtley in Oak Park, Illinois. Created in 1902, when Wright was in his mid-thirties, this design is as contemporary today, over 100 years later, as it was avant-garde at that time. The Arthur Heurtley House was granted National Historic Landmark status in the year 2000. |
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FLW Robie House.
Item FLW098C
Size: 6" x 9"
The Frederick C. Robie House, located in Chicago, Illinois was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908 and completed in 1910. Its dramatic horizontal appearance is enhanced by banks of art glass windows and doors. The handsome geometric designs, twenty-nine of which are uniquely different, although all follow the same theme, were also created by Wright. With the art glass, he created the illusion of a secluded private environment, with sunlight filtering through the art glass to enhance the interior space, yet with large areas of clear glass in the designs allowing a view of the exterior landscape. This panel is adapted from one of the distinctive art glass doors. |
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