Arm Chair

This chair is among his late work. For Wright the 1950s was certainly the most important period in his work. During this time three buildings were constructed simultaneously: Price Company Tower (1952), the Beth Sholom Synagogue (1954) and his opus magnum: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1956). Aesthetically these buildings were created between the organic and the anorganic, crystalline construction style. The Guggenheim Museum owes much to the organic, nature related style and appears like a snail shell screwing itself into the sky, this armchair is its counterpart: a crystal in which it is not really possible to get comfortable. Its form is reminiscent of today's dentists' chairs.