Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Wright, Frank Lloyd. Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Wallpapers. 26 wallpaper samples (four designs in six or seven color combinations) and 6 pages of photographic plates. Folio, tan cloth printed in orange and black. (Chicago: E. W. Bredemeier & Co. Sample Books, circa 1955)
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scarce sample book for a line of wallpapers designed by frank lloyd wright. The wallpaper, which sold for $5.95 to $7.45 a roll, matched a line of fabric also produced by Schumacher and coordinated with Wright's furniture for Heritage-Henredon. The photographic plates illustrate rooms decorated with the products and demonstrate Wright's comprehensive approach to his architecture and interiors. ex-collection architect oskar stonorov though with no ownership marks. Stonorov worked and co-authored articles with Wright as well as curating the traveling exhibition Exposition de l'Oeuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952. He collaborated with Louis Kahn, George Howe, Robert Venturi, and Le Corbusier, about whom he co-authored the landmark Oeuvre Complète with Max Bill and Willy Boesiger.