The use of art glass in the Dana-Thomas House (Springfield, Illinois 1902) is the most complete and lavish of Wright's career. Specially prepared panels were used in the suspended lamps, wall sconces and table lamps throughout the house as well as in the stained glass windows of the house and gallery. Wright himself admitted, some fifty years after these works were done, that of all his glass designs, those of the Dana-Thomas House were by far the most resplendent, as well as the most costly.

Many of these glass designs take nature forms for their inspiration. For example, the suspended lamps in the dining room were derived from the shapes of luxuriant butterfly wings. The transom glass over the fromt door includes several butterflies with overlapping wings, and the sumac windows in the dining room echo midwestern shrubs.

The wall sconces and table lamps, however, were designs created as pure geometric abstractions. Their straight-line patterns were easily adaptable to the glass maker's craft. Whether casting light upon the table or into the room, they also radiate deep autumnal shades of color, crating a warm glow within the interior of the building.

SUMAC 1 - Suspended Lamp
Designed in 1902
Lamp: Five 40W incandescent (clear)
Weight: 100.3 pounds
Shade: Colored iridescent glass, black patina brass
Body: Matte black finish brass, polished brass
Catalog Code: P2230

SUMAC 2 - Single Pedestal Table Lamp
Designed in 1902
Lamp: One 40W incandesent (clear)
Weight: 29.9 pounds
Shade: Colored iridescent glass, balck patina brass
Base: Polished brass
Catalog Code: S2296

SUMAC 3 - Double Pedestal Table Lamp
Designed in 1902
Lamp: Two 40W incadescent (clear)
Weight: 48.5 pounds
Shade: Colored iridescent glass, black patina brass
Base: Polished brass
Catalog Code: S2298

SUMAC 4 - Wall Sconce
Designed in 1902
Lamp: Two 25W incandescent (clear)
Weight: 10.8 pounds
Shade: Colored iridescent glass
Base: Polished brass
Catalog Code: S2322

SUMAC 5 - Table Lamp
Designed in 1902
Lamp: One 25W incandescnet (clear)
Weight: 10.1 pounds
Shade: Colored iridescent glass
Base: Polished brass
Catalog Code: S2300

Frank Lloyd Wright originally created this wooden table lamp for the interior of his own home, Taliesin, and placed several of them throughout the rooms. A shaft engaged in a solid base supports a square shade, almost a minature roof, evocative of a small building, itself inside Taliesin. These lamps were so well liked by Wright's clients that he would frequently specify them for use in other homes of his design.

TALIESIN 1 - Table Lamp
Designed in 1925
Lamp: One 60W incandescent (frosted)
Weight: 5.8 pounds
Shade: Cherry Wood, Acrylic
Base: Cherry wood
Catalog Code: S2306

TALIESIN BLACK 1 - Table Lamp
Designed in 1925
Lamp: One 60W incandescent (frosted)
Weight: 5.8 pounds
Shade: Ash wood stained black, Acrylic
Base: Ash wood stained black
Catalog Code: S2306B

When Frank LLoyd Wright converted the original gymnasium of his Hillside Home School (1902) into a theater in1933, he designed lighting pendants made up of square boxes and plywood shields to be suspended from the tall ceiling. These fixtures proved to be a lighting innovation, providing comfortable indirect lighting without the use of glass or shades.

In 1952, when the theater was rebuilt following a fire,
Wright modified the design of the original fixtures for use in the dining room, attaching them to the oak beams overhead. He found their soft indirect light so pleasing that he had a standing floor lamp version of the same design fabricated for use in his own home, Taliesin.

TALIESIN 2 - Floor lamp
Designed in 1925
Lamp: Ten 15W incandescent (clear)
Weight: 44.1 pounds
Shade: Cherry wood
Base: Cherrry wood
Catalog Code: S2308

TALIESIN 3 - Table Lamp
Designed in 1925
Lamp: Five 7W incandescent (clear)
Weight: 8.8 pounds
Shade: Cherry wood
Base: Cherry wood
Catalog Code: S2310

The fittings for the Frederick Robie House, (Chicago 1906) stand within the most elegant expression of Wright's Prarie House. These living room sconces, glass globes held within square frames of wood, form a procession along both sides of the living room. The globes are skillfully suspended in the frames by open, sculpted blocks, giving a sense of lightness - weightlessness - to the fixture.

ROBIE 1 - Wall sconce
Designed in 1906
Lamp: One 25W incandescent (frosted)
Weight: 7 pounds
Shade: Frosted white glass
Body: Cherry wood
Catalog Code: S2324
B2354 (with 13' cord and plug)

In contrast to the architecturally integrated fixtures in the living room, these sconces stand out as ornament to their surroundings. Wright carefully positioned the light source within the fixture to produce delicate shadows. The geometric perforations of the top plate cast crisp patterns upon the ceiling. Sconces of this design also were used in several other Wright houses of this period (1906--1909)

ROBIE 2 - Wall sconce
Designed in 1906
Lamp: One 40W incandescent (frosted)
Weight: 11 pounds
Shade: Inside frosted clear glass
Body: Antique finish brass
Catalog Code: S2326

The John Storer house (Los Angeles, 1923) is one of four Textile Block houses that Wright built in the Los Angeles area in 1923-24. The concrete blocks themselves were humble materials, cast on-site in repeated geometric designs, often with openings provided for glass inserts to admit daylight.

These concrete blocks formed the structure of the building, placed one upon another, with concealed steel rods running both horizontally and vertically within the joints, tying them together, much as a textile is woven.

This floor lamp takes these steel members as inspiration, and renders them into slender square rods that rise up from a metal base to support an illuminated cube of frosted glass. The delicacy and spare line of these slender lamps contrasts well with the pattern, substantial feel and organic texture of the surrounding concrete block walls.

STORER 1 - Floor Lamp
Designed in 1923
Lamp: One 40W incandescent (frosted)
Weight: 30.4 pounds
Shade: Inside frosted clear glass
Base: Black painted steel, aluminum
Catalog Code: S2304

Midway Gardens (Chicago, 1913) became a fashionable place for dining and dancing out of doors on Chicago's South Side upon its completion in June of 1914. Wright envisioned an almost magical setting of architecture, furniture, sculpture, murals, tableware, and lighting - all designed specifically for the project.

Among these designs is this metal table lamp, with it's low pitched glass shade suspended from a steel standard rising from a steel base. The proportions of the lamp are as carefully considered as were those of the building. This overall harmony of architecture, environment and features within, marks Wright's genius in creating what he called "organic" works, parts relating to the whole as the whole is related to the parts.

MIDWAY - Table Lamp
Designed in 1913
Lamp: One 40W incandescnet (frosted)
Weight: 21.4 pounds
Shade: Opal glass, black patina brass
Base and Arm: Matte black painted steel
Product Code: S2302

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