Frank Lloyd Wright Globes

Frank Lloyd Wright Globes

Frank Lloyd Wright is quite simply the greatest architect in American history. He was an inspirational figure for all architects to aspire to become. He had the famous quote "every architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age".

He was born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright on 8th June 1867 in Richland Centre. Frank was not just an architect, he was an educator and interior designer also. He designed more than 1000 projects in his lifetime and converted over 500 percent into completed works. This 50% success rate is simply unheard of today. In 1991 Architectural magazine published a list of the 100 most significant buildings in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright had designed 11 of them. His legacy is something that the whole world can treasure and his title as the greatest American architect of all time was officially recognised by the American institute of Architects in 1991. In 1940 Frank himself established his own foundation in order to preserve and protect his life's work. Such is its importance in American history.

As has been mentioned before in this page, Frank Lloyd Wright did a lot more than design buildings, he also designed the interiors of his own as well as other buildings. He also designed furniture, for example the Barrel chair whose design is obvious in the above globe simply call the barrel.

Frank loved to design residential properties, enjoying the challenges of meeting extremely precise and exact specifications provided by the customers. At the time (between 1900-1917) his designs were known as "prairie houses", this is now known as a style known for its flat or low sloping roofs and horizontal lines. Such houses are also seamlessly integrated within their location and landscape creating a harmonious view. Frank Lloyd Wright also incorporated lots of Japanese ideas into his design. This helped shape his work and many believe gave him the inspiration to create work based around straight, mostly horizontal lines.

Perhaps Franks most famous design is the interior of the Guggenheim museum in New York. This took over 15 years to design and create and is a masterpiece of interior design and engineering. It is also one of the best known museums in New York city. The museum itself overlooks central park. On the inside the building rises as an off-white spiral. The museum incorporates paintings all along the spiral towards the top of the building where an elevator can be taken to the bottom again. the most beautiful part of the museum design is that there is an open floor in the centre from which the whole spiral can be seen winding to the top of the building.

In 2009 the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation was approached by Replogle World Globes, the worlds premium globe manufacturer as Frank Lloyd Wright was passionate about fine furniture and Replogle globes are the worlds finest globe incorporated furniture.

The Frank Lloyd Wright foundation unearthed many drawings from their archives including the globe seen at the top of this page. This globe is based on a design that never went into production. Replogle used drawings, artwork and Franks buildings and interior designs to create a range of designer globes designed to to be style pieces with no compromise on furniture quality. All the world globes featured in the Frank Lloyd Wright range have bases made from solid hardwood and are all officially recognised by the foundation. These illustrious world globes start from around £200, a small price to pay for a designer furniture item.