John H. Howe > FLW FTW

these John H. Howe pieces and many more, are at Wright20 My first reaction to the 25 pieces of instantly recognizable Frank Lloyd Wright furniture being sold in Chicago without a single mention of FLW was trademark outrage. The “Private Midwest Commission” they came from was probably a FLW house, I imagined, that’d been stripped of its original furnishings, and in 1980 a dutiful owner was trying to make things right. And all of that might still be true. Also. John. H. Howe was Wright’s chief draftsman for decades, and he ran Wright’s successor firm until he went out on his own. It’s just as likely that Howe actually designed these objects in the first place. And could have done the house they came from, or the house they went into. So by all means, John. H. Howe furniture ftw. 5 Nov 2026, 14 lots of John H. Howe furniture [wright20]