Robie House

Wright, Frank Lloyd

dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Chicago, Illinois, United States	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1908-1910 (creation)	en_US
dc.creator	Wright, Frank Lloyd	en_US
dc.date	1908-1910	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-10T17:08:41Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-10T17:08:41Z
dc.date.issued	1908-1910	en_US
dc.identifier	215808	en_US
dc.identifier.other	archrefid: 257	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/123449
dc.description	View looking back towards street, from entry area, depicting stair leading to west terrace; Built for Fred Robie, Chicago. For those residential clients who could afford both house and custom-designed fittings, Wright provided interiors of the highest quality...[including] Robie House, where he designed settles and chairs, lamps, rugs, and a massive dining-table with lamps and flower vases at the corners and tall, rigidly rectangular slat-backed dining-chairs (now U. Chicago, IL, Smart Mus. A.). For these and many of his early houses, he also designed coloured, geometrically patterned art glass windows. In the Robie House, Wright was able to build the house over an above-ground basement. Living areas consist of interconnected spaces defined by wall and window screens and by ceilings of contrasting heights, most focused on a massive wood-burning fireplace, the symbolic centre of family life. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/8/2008)	en_US
dc.format.medium	brick	en_US
dc.rights	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.	en_US
dc.subject	architectural exteriors	en_US
dc.subject	decorative arts	en_US
dc.subject	Housing	en_US
dc.subject	Modernist	en_US
dc.title	Robie House	en_US
dc.type	image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	1A1-WFL-RH-C3	en_US
vra.culturalContext	American	en_US
vra.technique	construction (assembling)	en_US
vra.worktype	house	en_US
dc.contributor.display	Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)	en_US