Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Chairs. A Talk by Eric Vogel. Presented by Docomomo US/MN and the Goldstein Museum of Design. Saturday, June 20, 2026; 3-4pm.
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Docomomo US/MN and the Goldstein Museum of Design are pleased to present a free public talk by architectural historian Eric Vogel in conjunction with the exhibition Illusive Objects, on view through July 2, 2026. Organized by the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the recent exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design marked a reexamination of Wright’s contributions to furniture design and brought a selection of his lost and unbuilt chairs to life through contemporary fabrication. Original drawings, archival materials, and historical photographs supported the first-ever realizations of designs for projects such as the A.D. German Warehouse in Richland Center, Wisconsin, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Their presentation alongside historical works treated fabrication not as replication, but as an active investigation into Wright’s process, philosophy, and evolving material language. Free Event! Please register via the Goldstein Museum. Saturday, June 20, 2026 3pm to 4pm Gallery open until 5pm Goldstein Museum of Design 10 McNeal Hall 1985 Buford Ave St. Paul, MN 55108 Parking available at the S106 Lot, 1994 Upper Buford Circle. |
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Eric Vogel is currently scholar-in-residence at the Taliesin Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is a designer, educator, architectural historian, and former Chair of the 3D Design Department at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He holds a degree in art history from Harvard University, a master’s in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and is currently pursuing a mid-career PhD at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee. As board president of Docomomo US/Wisconsin, Eric is currently leading the research and film project Milwaukee Moderns. |
