Wright Chat

ScottCLE wrote:I'm assuming that this EBay vase guy got emails (at least one from me). He switched from FLLW to Illuminati in its description and kept the $20000 price.

eBay page showing seller's revision details.


David

As the decades pass it becomes less and less likely that run-of-the-mill journalism and realtor-ese will be informed by history -- I guess. In this case the writer seems unaware that Britain had her own cadre of modernists, from the 'forties on. Granted, those designers were often imports -- not Americans, in most cases, but European emigres, most of them exiles whose careers were interrupted by the war.

Long ago I promised this forum a look at some old books on the subject -- including one with some heart-warming examples of Wright-at-third-hand -- which are (or were) owned by my local big-city library. I'll have to make good on that threat, if I can; a newly-built library building coincided with some pruning of the collections, I'm afraid.

SDR

2 Vintage Original Charles Eames Lounge Chairs
From Frank Lloyd Wright Chahroudi Petre Island Cottage.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330924047011

$250,000.00, for two Eames chairs???!!!! Someone must have mistakenly added 4 zeros. The fabric (suede?) looks to be non standard in an effort to add a triangular motif and a warmer color than the basic black of the original.

Now, if the price included ottomans.......

Now if the price included the cottage....

That must be the ugliest upholstery that an Eames lounge chair has ever been forced to wear...

And no ottomans!

I've got it! I'll ship my two Eames chairs and ottomans to DRN, let them "live" in a Wright house for a year. Take pics, etc., make copies of the plans, then put them up on Ebay for $250K, purchase two new ones for myself, buy back all the missing Sweeton furniture and give those back to DRN. Poof, done!

That's the spirit, BBuck!

Mid Century Walnut Wood Turned Dry Weed Vase Pot Holder Frank Lloyd Wright USA


David

hmmmmmmmmm ........ seems they somehow decided to drop the 'Frank Lloyd Wright' from the listing.


David

I think they dropped the FLW, because this is actually a piece made by rural arts craftsman Floyd Wright and his domesticated beaver, Drumthwacket.

Sometimes bad things happen to good stumps.