- Product:
- Daybeds
- Manufacturer:
- Bonhams
- Architonic ID:
- 4104696
- Launched:
- 1940
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Three Frank Lloyd Wright Oak Daybeds
Commissioned for the Gatehouse Boy's Wing Arch Oboler residence, Malibu, California, early 1940's
With naugahyde upholsteries.
Height of each 14in, length 6ft 5in, depth 42.5in
Arch Oboler was well-known for his radio program "Lights Out"; his popularity led to his becoming the first radio playwright to have his own series on network radio. Later in Oboler's accomplished career, he wrote several additional programs as well as motion picture scripts. Arch Oboler was an acquaintance of Frank Lloyd Wright, and subsequently commissioned Wright to design a complex consisting of a gatehouse, retreat and main residence on 105 acres of land located in the Malibu hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The gatehouse was constructed in 1940; the Retreat was built in 1941 with additions in 1944 and 1946. For photographs of the Retreat, and a description of what was to be known as 'Eaglefeather', see William Allin Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 275-276
Commissioned for the Gatehouse Boy's Wing Arch Oboler residence, Malibu, California, early 1940's
With naugahyde upholsteries.
Height of each 14in, length 6ft 5in, depth 42.5in
Arch Oboler was well-known for his radio program "Lights Out"; his popularity led to his becoming the first radio playwright to have his own series on network radio. Later in Oboler's accomplished career, he wrote several additional programs as well as motion picture scripts. Arch Oboler was an acquaintance of Frank Lloyd Wright, and subsequently commissioned Wright to design a complex consisting of a gatehouse, retreat and main residence on 105 acres of land located in the Malibu hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The gatehouse was constructed in 1940; the Retreat was built in 1941 with additions in 1944 and 1946. For photographs of the Retreat, and a description of what was to be known as 'Eaglefeather', see William Allin Storrer, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 275-276