When we bought this house, we bought a passel of furniture with it. The original dining room, library, and game table that Mrs. Elsner tracked down in the 1950s and 60s, as well as several Wright pieces that had been manufactured by Henredon in the '50s and '60s. Almost all of this furniture was downstairs.
We did buy a bed, and with the help of friends and family were able to sleep on an actual bed the day we closed on the house. (Thank you Mel, Frank, Matt, and Laurie; as well as the staff from Christie's)
But we did not have a desk, or many chairs that we could use upstairs.
That did not stop us from making do with what we had:
Yes, that is a camp chair on the right, and the desk is made from moving boxes that we shipped up here with our books in them, and two of the leaves from the dining room table. It worked, I am very happy to say.
But recently Doreen found a Wright designed table that was manufactured in the '90s, and it would fit right in:
Provenance:
Detail:
You can see that the square motif is preserved in this desk.
And when we get it set up it looks like this:
Except for the camp chair, it is pretty nice! That other chair is one of the Henredon chairs. (And if you look closely, you can see what I am writing on the screen. Sort of self-referential)
We are now looking for other desk chairs that will fit, both physically and from a design standpoint.
But this is a good start!
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