The Nation - News from June 12, 1988
A lamp created by Frank Lloyd Wright in about 1908 for his Robie house, built five years earlier in Chicago, was auctioned for $704,000, breaking sales records for 20th-Century American furniture and decorative art, a spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house said in New York. The lamp, in a pagoda shape, has a shade of leaded glass atop double green, brown and white pedestals edged with leaded bronze. The previous record for 20th-Century American decorative art was set last year when a dining room table and eight chairs designed by Wright sold for $594,000.
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