No other architect or designer of the modern era transformed the use of leaded glass in architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright. Creating ribbons of uninterrupted glass casement windows and doors in his Prairie style buildings, Wright conceived …

Signature works in the collection include: Wright’s seminal furniture suite designed for the dining room of his Oak Park residence; one of five known oak print stands designed to exhibit and examine items from Wright’s extensive collection of Japanese prints; leaded glass windows at the Home and Studio that chart the development of Wright ...

Typically installed in the upper registers of windows in both industrial and commercial spaces, these ribbed, 4-inch square sheets of glass used refraction to illuminate large, deep spaces with natural light. Wright’s many designs for Luxfer Prisms are distinguished by …

In the living room of the Willits house, bands of floor-to-ceiling leaded glass windows open to a veranda and the yard, allowing nature to penetrate the interior. Divisions between the first floor …

He also developed designs for some of the house’s rugs, which were central to Wright’s overall scheme. They feature asymmetrical patterns of squares and rectangles that reiterate the motifs found in the house’s casement windows and exterior tile-work.

Lightly stained wood trim and shallow hipped roofs emphasize the horizontality of the structure. In contrast to many of Wright’s Prairie residences, the house features conventional casement windows with clear square panes and wood mullions in place of decorative leaded glass windows.

The Dana house features one of Wright’s most impressive displays of leaded glass, with over two hundred windows, doors, and skylights, all unified by their distinct design vocabulary and palette.

The uppermost portion of the sanctuary appears light and transparent. A continuous band of clerestory windows of Wright’s signature leaded glass encircles the flat, coffered ceiling.

The dormered gambrel roof and columned veranda, as well as the dark stained shingle siding that originally covered the Frederick Bagley house, were typical features of American domestic architecture by the late nineteenth century.

Striking cantilevered light fixtures of oak and glass, added after Wright’s 1905 trip to Japan, bathe the room in a warm ambient glow. On either side of the room, window bays of leaded glass with built-in window seats are at the height of the mature trees that surround the lot, placing Wright’s children in the leafy canopy of the trees outside.