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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 285885, member: 5170&quot;]Wright designed furniture for the Larkin Building and houses for Larkin executives. If his office furniture for Larkin did not resemble this rocker, it doesn’t mean that his aesthetic did not influence its design.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>H.H. Richardson was best known for his personal adaptation of the Romanesque. The J.J. Glessner House in Chicago from the mid-1880s was known for disciplining the picturesque of Richardson’s earlier designs, but the furniture was European arts and crafts and aesthetic. Richardson influenced Wright and Sullivan early on, and their takes on Arts and Crafts in large part came through him, although he cannot be said to be a Prairie school architect by any means. The extended spindles/slats that give this rocker its panache can be found not only in Wright’s turn-of-the-20th century furniture, but in such places at the stairway balustrade of Sullivan and Wright’s Charnley House in Chicago from the 1890s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you add this to Gustav Stickley’s craftsman aesthetic, which shared much with Wright’s own philosophy including a respect for materials and plain surfaces as a reaction against Victorian exuberance, then the choices in the design of this rocker become more apparent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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