Home » Furniture »Chairs » Barrel Chair, Cherry, Fabric Seat, Small Barrel Chair, Cherry, Fabric Seat, Small One of Wright's most iconic designs, Cassina's present day edition harks back to Wright's primitive designs. In fact, the Barrel chair dates from 1937, but is an update of one of his first tub chairs designed in 1904. Crafted of cherry wood with a natural finish (The image shown is with the optional leather seat cushion), it features the finest traditional construction with a wool fabric cushion in your choice of red, blue, burgundy or black (swatches shown at left). 21.4"w x 31.9"h x 21.8"d. Note: When you place your furniture order online, one of our representatives will contact you to confirm your order. Shipping and handling for this item is 18% of the price. Special shipping charges apply. Please allow up to 16 weeks for delivery Barrel Chair, Cherry, Leather Seat, SmallAlso available with a leather seat in black. Barrel Chair, Walnut, Fabric Seat, Small
Same as shown but with a walnut finish and fabric seat. Barrel Chair, Walnut, Leather Seat, Small Same as shown but with a walnut finish. Barrel Chair, Black, Fabric Seat, Small Same as shown but with a cherry finish and fabric seat. Barrel Chair, Black, Leather Seat, Small Same as shown but with a black finish. Trusted Source for Frank Lloyd Wright Licensed Products.All the models in the Cassina collection, by merit of their artistic content and particular creative character, are protected by copyright, a legal institution that is universally recognised and safeguarded; legal protection is assured for the whole life-span of the author and for 70 years after his/her death (or the death of the last surviving co-author).Without question the greatest architect the United States has ever produced, Frank Lloyd Wright and his philosophy of “organic architecture” — of buildings that exist in harmony with their natural surroundings — had a profound influence on the shape of modern life.
Wright gave us some of the most elegant and iconic structures in America: residences such as “Fallingwater,” in rural Pennsylvania, the Robie House in Chicago, and “Taliesin,” Wright’s own home; and masterful institutional structures that include the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Whenever possible, Wright designed the furniture for his projects, to ensure an affinity between a building’s exterior and interior. Wright’s wooden chairs and tables for his “Prairie Houses” of the early 1900s have sleek, attenuated forms, influenced by both the simplicity of traditional Japanese design and the work of Gustav Stickley and other designers of the Arts and Crafts movement. For Taliesin and several residential projects, Wright designed severely geometric chairs that are marvels of reductivist design. He revisited many of these forms in the 1950s in furniture licensed to the firm Henredon, adding a decorative frieze-like element to the edges of tables and stools.
The works on these pages also show how happily Wright embraced new forms and materials. His desks and chairs for Johnson Wax have a streamlined look and use tubular steel to the same effect as designer Warren McArthur, who collaborated with Wright in the interiors of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. For the Price Tower (1956) in Oklahoma, Wright designed angular wooden desks as well as upholstered pedestal chairs made of chromed steel — audacious furniture for his tallest completed building project. The beauty of Frank Lloyd Wright’s furniture designs is that while many of us wish we could live in one of houses, his chairs, tables, and sofas connect us directly to his architecture, and to the history he made. Read more about Frank Lloyd Wright in Introspective MagazineAdd some architecture to your vacationFrank Lloyd Wright’s Seamless Interior Design: Wingspread House Frank Lloyd Wright famously said “Every chair must be designed for the building it will be in.” This perfectly illustrates his approach to interior design—mostly, that it was a natural extension of the architecture itself.
The light in the room, the placement of the windows, how one room flowed into the next—decor and furniture had to not only fit within it, it had to complement it. The Barrel Chair is contemporary, sculptural, and a perfect homage to the home it was designed for. Wingspread House in Wind Point, Wisconsin, like Wright’s other homes, was designed around the way life is actually lived in a home. Built in 1938-1939, it has all the hallmarks of a Wright home: social seating, central areas to come together a hearth, and smaller, private areas fanning out from there. Open spaces, cantilevered structures, and lean geometry embody his style, and Wingspread—now a publicly used as a meeting facility—soars. Wingspread’s “Great Hall” is the focal point of the home, with a central, tubular brick fireplace with cutaway openings—a design that continues right up to the roofline. The Barrel Chair mimics the fireplace with its tubular design, open in the front, and the vertical slats of the oak echo the repetition of vertical lines throughout the structure of the home.
Read more about the architecture, decor and philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright. Something new to love every day. Exceptional value on top-brand, vintage, and designer items for the home.Click to view larger In stock Available, ships in 5 to 7 business days Add Items to Cart The Barrel globe, from the Frank Lloyd Wright collection, adapted from the famous architect's drawings and authorized by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, matches the dimensions and geometry of the furniture it's based on.The Barrel globe is modeled on Wright's Barrel Chair, designed in 1903 and modified later for use at his Taliesin estate in Spring Green, WI, and Herbert F Johnson's Wingspread home in Racine, WI. This globe stand is an adaptation of one of the most universally recognized furniture designs found in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. It is a modified version of the famous "Barrel Chair" originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903 and modified for his personal use at "Taliesin" in Spring Green, Wisconsin and for Herbert F. Johnson for his home "Wingspread" in Racine, Wisconsin in 1937.