CUSTOM FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TABLE LAMP

This one-of-kind table lamp was fashioned from a hand-cast concrete block recovered during restorations to Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House following a 1994 earthquake.  Commissioned by oil heiress Aline Barnsdall and completed in 1921, the house represented Wright's transition away from the 'Prairie' style of the preceding decades.  Principally used to ornament the Hollyhock House, such blocks would later become the basis of the new construction system that Wright employed in building his four "textile-block" homes in Southern California:  the Ennis, Millard, Samuel Freeman, and Storer Houses.  Reinforcing rods, cast inside the blocks themselves, were "woven" through the walls like threads on a loom.  According to Wright's grandson, the size of the blocks was "intended to be about what one person can lift without too much effort."  Mounted on Lucite. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT was born in 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin.  After studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsi