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Easy chair Easy chair

Frank Lloyd Wright
Attributed to John W. John W. Ayers

c. 1903

30 x 31 11/16 x 26 11/16 in. (76.2 x 80.49 x 67.79 cm)

Gift of Ruth L. and Walter Swardenski

Accession #: 85.39

Frank Lloyd Wright created this easy chair for a house he designed in Peoria, Illinois. Wright's client, Francis W. Little, became his close friend and financial supporter. A decade later, Wright built a second home for Little, overlooking Lake Minnetonka in Deephaven, Minnesota; the hallway from that house is displayed in the Ulrich Gallery of Architecture and Design at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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