Auction a lamp that belonged to the designer Frank Lloyd Wright and which is worth millions

Do you want to illuminate your living room with the environmental glow of a piece of historical importance? It could cost up to 5 million dollars (4.35 million euros). A rare lamp of the Legendary architect United States Frank Lloyd Wright He is about to go out to auction. Wright designed the double pedestal lamp for Dana-Thomas House, which he built for the philanthropic Susan Lawrence Dana in 1902.

After 1904, Springfield’s House, Illinois, is a classic of the style of decadent design of Wright for his sense of fluidity and its shining selection of attached glass windows, which bring light to all the corners. In addition to the windows and ClaraboyasThe Dana-Thomas House It was illuminated For the largest collection of Wright crystal furniture, including double -peeled lamps. There are only two of these unique lamps. One belongs to the collection of the house and the second has been put on sale.

The double -piece lamp Will be put to auction in the Modern EuCion of Sotheby’s May 13th. It is estimated that it will be sold for an estimated value between 3 million dollars (2.61 million euros) and 5 million dollars (4.35 million euros).

“The lamp Distil the essence Of the design principles of Wright in a single object, like a miniature house created by the same architect, “said Jodi Pollack, president of Sotheby’s. Wright, who died in 1959, was one of the key figures of the 20th century design. It has designed more than 1,000 works, including over 400 buildings. About 300 of these buildings are still preserved, including many of the most famous, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Fallingwater and its family home.

Dana was one of the first women who hired Wright to design a house. The result was the most daring design Wright’s career up to that moment, with the love of philanthropist for Japanese art and his commitment to social justice as a thread of the building.

The bronze structure of the lamp and the kaleidoscopic glass They create the image of a traditional Japanese templeWith the “Zuma pattern” of the interior design of the house reproduced in the upper part of the lamp.

Designed when the electric lamps were still a relative novelty, Pollack describes the lamp as a “Innovation, progress and Modernity Faro”. The lamp was last sold in an auction for 2 million dollars (3.09 million euros adapted to inflation) in 2002.

Technically, The maximum that was sold for a lamp by the architect There are 2.9 million dollars (2.64 million euros adequate) for a 1902 ceiling lamp by Francis W. Little House in 2023. “As a last example of this precious icon in private hands, this offer represents a unique opportunity for Collectors and institutions They acquire one of the great masterpieces of our generation, “said Pollack.