GMD Talk | Eric Vogel on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lost Chairs
Please join Aidan O'Connor, AB '05, Director of the Goldstein Museum of Design for this presentation by architectural historian Eric Vogel, curator of the recent exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design hosted by the Goldstein Museum of Design and Docomomo US/MN
Saturday, June 20
3:00 PM
Presentation 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Gallery open until 5:00 PM
University of Minnesota, 33 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108
Price: Free
Organized by the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the exhibition marked a reexamination of Wright’s contributions in 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.
This free, public program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition , on view in the Goldstein Gallery through July 2, 2026. The gallery will remain open for viewing until 5:00 PM. REGISTER HERE
About the speaker:
Eric Vogel is currently scholar-in-residence at the Taliesin Institute in Scottsdale, AZ. 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 the Wisconsin chapter of Docomomo US, Eric is currently leading a research and film project about Milwaukee’s 20th century architectural history titled Milwaukee Moderns.
About our partners:
Docomomo is the International working party for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement. Docomomo US/MN is the Minnesota chapter of Docomomo US.