Wright Chat

Who could forget the bubble houses?

According to Toker, he had an arrangement with the WPC whereby he could come and spend the night any time he wanted, so he didn't give the house up entirely. Staying out of the say of tours would have been an inconvenience, thought.

Does anybody know where that block (ca. 2:50 in David C's video of Saturday the 25th) is from? It looks a lot like Ennis but isn't quite.

Try https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sZIpsf ... sp=sharing

Alice Millard built a second house in Pasadena after the Highland Park house she and her husband had built. Pretty sure Thomas and Laura Gale owned one of the Chicago Avenue bootlegs (developed by his brother Walter) and later commissioned a large prairie house, never built. After his death she buil...

Not a single Victorian just to fill out the bill.

I think Helen Olfelt is still with us, though no longer in her house.

The article doesn't mention that one of the buildings (fifth photo from the top) is by Goff. Is it in any danger?

Some time after I first saw the building in the 80s. I have a hard time believing that, if a bride and her party want to make an entry, Wright intended them to go through that dreary hall.

The standard story is that getting latecomers unobtrusively to the back of the room is one function of the cloisters, though the video shows that they'd still have to walk in front of at least one row of pews. Did Wright intend those pews? Fig. 75 on p 101 of Siry's book suggests that he did, but th...

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It's in v. 1 of the Rizzoli Collected Writings.

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...