Johnson Wax Building

Racine, Wisconsin
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
1936-1939

Model: 1984
Scale 3/8”=1”0

Photo by Emil Chinger

The Johnson Wax Building is the headquarters of S.C. Johnson & Son and was designed by the great FLW. This model is an interior rendition of the Great Workroom. It showcases the special “lily pad” columns that Wright designed which had to be proven structurally sound to support the roof load to the local city officials, along with the unique furniture that FLW designed and Knoll International built. 

The model was commissioned by Knoll and built for a special exhibit of Wright’s work for the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. I built this model with a very talented fellow model maker, Lenon Kaplan.