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Lot 7
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$6,250
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Lot Description
[ARCHITECTURE]. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). A group of architectural drawings, renderings, and blueprints relating to the S. C. Johnson and Sons Office Building in Racine, Wisconsin, comprising:
3 original finished architectural drawings in pencil, titled lower margin: "Mezzanine Office Allotment," unframed; "'Electroliers' for Carport," unframed; "Ash Stand," matted, framed, and glazed (unexamined out of frame). Each hand-lettered lower margin "Frank Lloyd Wright Architect" with his square (colored red in "Ash Stand" drawing).
[With:]
2 original architectural drawings in pencil, presumably drafts, titled lower margin: "Space Allotment Ground Plan," unframed; "Triplicate cantilever office desk," matted, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame). Both unsigned, presumably by a member of Wright's firm.
[With:]
7 blueprints relating to the project (rolled, a few with tears). -- Together, 12 items. Provenance: acquired from Nelson Construction Company, Racine, Wisconsin.