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Object Timeline

1915

  • Work on this object began.

1925

  • Work on this object ended.

1968

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2024

  • You found it!

Side Chair (USA)

This is a side chair. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is dated ca. 1920 and we acquired it in 1968. Its medium is wood (oak), woven textile upholstery. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Gift of Tetsuzo Inumaru.

  • Price Tower Stool
  • copper, woven textile.
  • Gift of George R. Kravis II.
  • 2018-22-65-a,b

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  • Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library, N5 .W469 folio.
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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 95.5 x 39.5 x 49.5 cm (37 5/8 x 15 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Small metallic label on left side with numbers "448" imprinted.

Cite this object as

Side Chair (USA); Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959); wood (oak), woven textile upholstery; H x W x D: 95.5 x 39.5 x 49.5 cm (37 5/8 x 15 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.); Gift of Tetsuzo Inumaru; 1968-137-1-a

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