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stool from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
stool from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
USA, 1956
copper 15 h × 20 w × 17 d in (38 × 51 × 43 cm)
copper 15 h × 20 w × 17 d in (38 × 51 × 43 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $13,750
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This copper clad stool was made for the 16th-floor commissary dining area and terraces. According to correspondence from Harold C. Price to Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956, only 40 examples were produced.
provenance: Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK | Mrs. Harold Charles Price, Jr.
literature: Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, Alofsin, pg. 153 The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Hanks, pg. 167 Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959, Pfeiffer and Futagawa, ppg. 64-71 illustrate and discuss commission