Frank Lloyd Wright

This table is an example of the Prairie School style, a uniquely American aesthetic which shared the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement but rejected historical revivalism. The Midwest’s vast, open, and flat topography is celebrated in the Prairie School’s strong horizontal planes, with architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright passionately promoting this balanced relationship between nature and the built environment.

Commissioned for the Sherman Booth House in Glencoe, Illinois, the table mimics the architectural vocabulary of the residence: the cantilevered top over square legs and the intersection of the table top with the center cabinet echo the spatial relationship of the Booth House with its central chimney.