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ID: 500045662
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500045662

 

Record Type: Corporate Body
Niedecken-Walbridge Co. (American interior design firm, established 1907)

Note: According to Hoffmann, Frank Lloyd Wright assigned the Niedecken-Walbridge Co. to build the furniture for the Robie House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1909. The company was run by George M. Niedecken who was an interior designer. Connors also suggests that the Niedecken-Walbridge Co. was hired to build furniture for the Robie House in 1910. According to Goldstein, the Niedecken-Walbridge Co. was founded by George N. Niedecken and John S. Walbridge in 1907. The company specialized in mural painting as well as furniture, glass and light designs. George N. Niedecken worked with Frank Lloyd Wright form 1904 to 1918. The buildings he helped to decorate included the Coonley House in Riverside, Illinois (1908-1909) and the Robie House in Chicago, Illinois (1910).

Names:
Niedecken-Walbridge Co. (preferred,V,index)
Firm of Niedecken-Walbridge (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
design firm (preferred)

Gender: not applicable

Start and End Places:
Start:  Milwaukee (Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
location:   Milwaukee (Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Wright, Frank Lloyd  
................................  (American architect, 1867-1959) [500020307]
partner was (firm to person) ....  Niedecken, George Mann  
................................................  (American interior designer, 1878-1945) [500041215]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Corporate Bodies
 ........  Niedecken-Walbridge Co. (I)

Biographies:
(American interior design firm, established 1907) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American interior design firm; established Milwaukee (Wisconsin, United States), 1907) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Firm of Niedecken-Walbridge ........ [CCA]
.......................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Niedecken-Walbridge Co. ........ [CCA Preferred]
.................................................  Goldstein, The Domestic Scene (1981) 4-5, 26, 43-47, 59, 69-70

Subject: ........ [CCA, VP]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Connors, Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright (1984) 39
....................  Goldstein, The Domestic Scene (1981) 4-5, 26, 43-47, 59, 69-70
....................  Hoffmann, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (1984) 32
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
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