Lounge Like Frank Lloyd Wright in a Replica of the Chair He Designed for Himself

Though Frank Lloyd Wright is most famous for the beautiful houses he designed, his career as a furniture designer is less celebrated. He often designed custom pieces for the homes he built, and by the end of his career, he had created hundreds of sketches for chair designs.

You can now buy a replica of one of the chairs that he designed for his own use, thanks to Cassina. Fast Company reports that the furniture company has collaborated with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to release a limited batch of the chair that Wright designed for his living room at Taliesin West in Arizona (now the foundation's headquarters).

Wright created the Taliesin 1 armchair in 1949, using it at his home and workshop until his death in 1959. It wasn’t mass-produced until the late 1980s, when Cassina released a version of it. The company stopped making the chair in 1990, and it has only now returned to the catalog.

This time, there are some upgrades. (You can see some images of the original chairs at Taliesin West on the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's website.) It still has that classic origami-like shape—created from a single piece of folded plywood—but it now has a slightly more reclined backrest and more padding to please modern backsides. It comes in new colors, too, with burgundy, green, and dark blue options.

Cassina will make only 450 of the chairs, according to Fast Company, and they cost $5500 each. (That may seem pricey for an armchair, but it's pennies compared to how much it costs to live in a Wright house.) For true obsessives, Cassina sells versions of some of Wright’s other furniture designs as well, including several chairs and tables.

[h/t Fast Company]