Column: Frank Lloyd Wright's chairs get a thoughtful presentation

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It’s unusual to step into a Frank Lloyd Wright building and not find at least a few examples of the architect’s furniture designs. That’s in part because the designer always wanted complete control over the environments he created, and in part because many of his designs look silly with more conventional furnishings. The Museum of Wisconsin Art, or MOWA, in West Bend, Wisconsin, is now hosting the exhibition “ Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design “ that looks at his career through the prism of his chair designs, including some that have been brought to life for the first time.

The exhibition was curated by Eric Vogel and Thomas Szolwinski with Jennifer Gray. Szolwinski, who is curator of architecture and design at MOWA, notes that w