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Frank Lloyd Wright Rockford + Galesburg Collection
Rockford Collection
Intentional design and sympathetic geometric silhouettes come forward in the reintroduction of an exceptional lounge chair and a collection of reinterpreted companion pieces, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Laurent house in Rockford, Illinois.
In 1952, Wright completed one of his most meaningful Usonian homes for Phyllis and Kenneth Laurent. Embodying his organic principles and tailored to the unique needs of a disabled veteran, this is the only home in Wright’s portfolio designed to be wheelchair accessible.
The simple, usable and light-filled open plan of this “little gem” of a house is mirrored in Wright’s furniture of the era, combining functionality with lively shapes and clean, nesting modularity. For the Rockford Collection, these themes are at the heart of furniture that is meant to be seen and combined in the round.
Galesburg Collection
Sleek, folded planes and distinctive platform bases draw on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian principles with reimagined modern upholstery. Unexpected in style yet anchored in Wright’s unmistakable architectural forms, the Galesburg Collection brings a sofa, chaise and lounge chair to life for home and work settings.
By the 1950s, Wright was making his designs available to more people, expanding beyond custom furniture crafted for specific homes with one of the first designer furniture lines, including a tuxedo-style sofa made with accessible materials like plywood and veneer.
This new collection uses that sofa as a starting point, along with built-in banquettes from various Usonian homes around Galesburg, Michigan. Reflecting Wright’s approach to furniture as scaled-down architecture, with the same ideal continuity of form, these pieces advance Wright’s goal to create timeless des
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