Interior view of Robie House showing the dining room with furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and George M. Niedecken, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Henry Fuermann (photographer)
Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
George M. Niedecken (furniture designer)
Niedecken-Walbridge Co. (furniture company)
Fred C. Robie (client)
Frank Lloyd Wright (furniture designer)

Title:

Interior view of Robie House showing the dining room with furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and George M. Niedecken, Chicago, Illinois

Date:

after 1910

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Platinum/palladium-toned gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.1 x 23.3 cm secondary support: 20.7 x 25.3 cm sheet: 18.6 x 23.8 cm tertiary support: 20.5 x 26.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1983:0070

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photograph is affixed to a secondary support, one half of a folded sheet of cream laid [?] paper, which is affixed to a tertiary support, a rectangle of heavy brown paper. There is a ghost image of the photograph on the recto of the secondary support and graphite drawings of sofas on the verso. Tertiary support is present only along b., l. and r. side of secondary support. Top corner of tertiary support deteriorating.

Inscription:

numbered - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.l.: "3505" [neg. no.] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "#4." stamped - in purple ink, on the tertiary support, c.: "PROPERTY OF / NIEDECKEN - WALBRIDGE CO. / INTERIOR ARCHITECTS, / 436 [?] Milwaukee St. MILWAUKEE." [sideways] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, verso, l.l.: "Robie / PA 77.117.1 (L)" ["Robie" sideways]

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

dining room

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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