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Wright and the Early 20th-Century American Home

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Wright and the Early 20th-Century American Home

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    Exterior View, Avery Coonley Playhouse (Riverside, Ill.), 1912

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    Dining Room, Frederick C. Robie House (Chicago), 1908.

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    Entryway, Susan Lawrence Dana House (Springfield, Ill.), 1902.

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    "Flag and Balloon" sample window for the Avery Coonley Playhouse (Riverside, Ill.), 1912.

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    Thomas P. Hardy House (Racine, Wis.), 1905.

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    Mahogany library table, Edward C. Waller House Remodel (River Forest, Ill.), 1899

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    Plan and Perspective View, Frederick C. Robie House (Chicago), 1908.

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    Table lamp for the Susan Lawrence Dana House (Springfield, Ill.), 1902.

A new exhibit at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed SC Johnson campus in Racine, Wis., showcases the architect’s early 20th-century Prairie-style designs and is the inaugural display at The Gallery: At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright—a partnership between the corporation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The free gallery explores Wright’s impact on the American home through a selection of artifacts and images that define his best-known design styles. The first installation spotlights the architect’s focus on humans’ connectedness with nature, which yielded an array of Prairie-style homes from 1899 to 1909 and helped position Wright as a phenomenon in the architecture world. Visitors to the exhibit can learn about the architectural markings that signify the interiors and exterior of Prairie-style construction while viewing images and artifacts from those homes. The exhibit is co-curated by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, now a Wright historian who came to the well-known Taliesin Fellowship in 1949, where he worked with Wright. SC Johnson also offers tours of Wright-designed buildings on its campus.