Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright is renowned for wow-worthy buildings like Fallingwater in Pennsylvania and, closer to home, Wauwatosa’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church – a design Wright famously illustrated by holding a coffee cup with an upside-down saucer on top.

But for nearly every structure the Wisconsin-born Wright designed, he designed its furnishings, too. He wanted to create a whole-house experience for clients that included the dining-table set where they’d enjoy meals and chairs to cozy up in near the fireplace. “What can we learn about his design methods just through his chair design?” says Thomas Szolwinski, associate curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Wisconsin Art . “[They] weren’t merely functional additions to his spaces; they were integral to

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