Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in Wisconsin, USA. He died in 1959.
At the age of twenty he travelled to Chicago in pursuit of architecture, where he discovered the work of Adler and Sullivan, applied for a job, and worked directly under Louis Sullivan for nearly seven years. In 1893 he established his own practice. His work in and around Chicago from 1893 to 1909 heralded a new concept in architecture. The “Larkin Building†and “Unity Temple†saw innovations in design and engineering, made possible by the technology and materials of the twentieth century.
By means of reinforced concrete, glass, steel, sheet metal and the cantilever (a support moved in from the edge), he developed an architecture in which the reality of the building was the space within. This evasive element - almost mystical by nature - of liberated interior space, is the pervading quality in everything he built. In 1932 Wright and his wife Olgivanna founded the Taliesin Fellowship, a school of architecture at their own home.
Soon came the famous commissions for Fallingwater and the Johnson Wax Administration Building.
Wright also established the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which continues to preserve and safeguard his work, archives and principles.
Since 1986, Cassina have been licenced by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to produce Wright’s furniture designs.
