Wright Chat

He actually did child-sized tables and chairs for the Coonley Playhouse. The chairs have piercings in back to tie cushions. One of them eventually came back to the house, and another belongs to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

How did the restorers establish the exterior green? Did they have original samples? It might be authentic even if we don't like it.

Incidental information: John Geiger once said that elevator/stairway shafts were a problem for the Price Tower. It was an adaptation of a 1920s design for the St. Mark's Tower in New York. Wright widened the shafts to meet 1950s code without fundamentally rethinking the floor plans for the resultant...

One of the Hollyhock docents in the 80s said that she and her husband had looked at Residence B while house-hunting "after the war", which would have been around the time Aline Barnsdall died (in Residence B, they say). It was by then a crash pad for hoboes (in the parlance of the day). Apparently t...

Sweeney discovered a Schindler remodel in Stinson Beach that was not in Gebhard's catalog:

(Most of the pictures wouldn't display for me, and the realtor links are obsolete.)

The story is that they sent the League of Nations design to Neutra's father-in-law in Switzerland as a joint work and that he took Schindler's name off before submitting it formally. Nothing too good for his little girl.

I'm curious about the date. In 1927 he was in joint practice with Schindler. Was this building at least nominally the product of their office? The pool / terrace that occupied what would have been the site of the Little Dipper is nominally their work, but everybody calls it The Schindler Terrace.

My understanding is that the 1920s textile block used concave blocks back-to-back to create an insulating air space. Usonian automatic was only one block thick. I don't think they used Wright's method at the Arizona Biltmore, even though he was listed as a consultant in the use of concrete block.

I think you could still make a distinction. Most people throughout history, including the early New Englanders, lived in a single room because that was all they were able to build and to heat. Wright's innovation was to do this deliberately rather than as a matter of economic and technological neces...

imdb and Wikipedia both say "Vandamm".

The first one looks like Lautner. Several that I skimmed through before Instagram blocked me look like Louis Kahn.

That wasn't the only time in LA that he presented a multistory interior as as a single space. The mitered corners of Freeman , though only two stories tall, resemble (maybe even more strongly) the corner tower at Fallingwater. The main facades of Storer and the bedroom wing of Hollyhock are other ca...

And did you know that the Lews were the first nonwhites to cross the line in that neighborhood? (According to John Blanton, who worked for Neutra at the time)

An album of his father's compositions has been published: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/musicofwilliamwright.