The Boyd Collection – I. Masterworks 
8 November 2018
Frank Lloyd Wright, armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Image 1 of 4
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The Boyd Collection – I. Masterworks 
Frank Lloyd Wright, armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Image 1 of 4
Frank Lloyd Wright, armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Image 2 of 4
Frank Lloyd Wright, armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Image 3 of 4
Frank Lloyd Wright, armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma - Image 4 of 4
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Frank Lloyd Wright

armchair from Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

USA, 1956
cast aluminum, vinyl 33 h × 28 w × 24 d in (84 × 71 × 61 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $10,000
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provenance: Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK | Fifty/50, New York | Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd
literature: Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, Alofsin, pg. 148 The Story of the Tower, Wright, pg. 130

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Office interior with Price employees seated at the Wright-designed work space

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Crowds waiting in line to visit Price Tower on opening day, February 1956
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