{"id":248768,"date":"2025-05-20T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aerospace\/this-lamp-just-became-the-most-expensive-object-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wright-ever-sold-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:31:04","slug":"this-lamp-just-became-the-most-expensive-object-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wright-ever-sold-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=248768","title":{"rendered":"This Lamp Just Became the Most Expensive Object Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Ever Sold at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The double-pedestal light fixture brought in $7.5 million. It was designed around 1903 for the Susan Lawrence Dana House, a 12,000-square-foot residence in Springfield, Illinois<\/h2>\n
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American architect\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a> is most famous for the hundreds<\/a> of structures he designed over his seven-decade career. But in addition to sketching out buildings, Wright also created custom furnishings, many of which bear the hallmarks of his signature\u00a0Prairie style<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite impossible to consider the building as one thing, its furnishings another and its setting and environment still another,\u201d he once\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe spirit in which these buildings are conceived sees all these together at work as one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 13, Sotheby\u2019s sold one of Wright\u2019s furniture pieces\u2014a rare\u00a0double-pedestal lamp<\/a>\u2014for a record-breaking $7.5 million. After a\u00a0seven-minute bidding war<\/a>, the lamp became the most expensive Wright object ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n

The lamp broke the record set by a 1902 ceiling light Wright designed for the Francis W. Little House in Peoria, Illinois, which sold for\u00a0$2.9 million<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

The sale celebrates \u201cnot only a remarkable piece of American design but a landmark moment in the legacy of one of the most visionary architects in history,\u201d says Jodi Pollack, an expert in 20th-century design at Sotheby\u2019s, in a statement, as reported by\u00a0Artnet<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Min Chen.<\/p>\n

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Why This Lamp Is Worth Millions: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece Heads to Auction | Sotheby’s<\/p>\n

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