Plowden & Smith Senior Furniture Conservator, Oliver White, is currently conservation cleaning and restoring the wooden interior elements of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann Office. This is an exciting project we are working on for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).
This short film, made by the V&A and first shown to visitors at TEFAF Maastricht 2020, gives an insight into this complex project to restore and redisplay Frank Lloyd Wright’s (1867-1959) office for Edgar J. Kaufmann.
The Kaufmann Office (c.1937) is one of the most important twentieth-century objects in the V&A’s collection, and it is the most complete and original interior by the great American architect to survive outside the United States. Once restored, the office will go on public display in the V&A’s new Collection and Research Centre, due to open in 2023.
