Wright Chat

The house looks better than I have ever seen it before!

I like this type, set on a steep slope so the views from within are through the trees. The first design for Llewellyn Wright's house would have been more dramatic than the second affordable design.

Rasmussen's house is fine in every detail. The stonework is excellent.

"Why settle for the coupon when you can have the genuine bond?"

I know, and agree, that additions to old homes should not be an attempt to replicate the style so one cannot tell where the original ends and the new addition begins, but in this case, I think the new could have been handled more gracefully, in a style more compatible with the original. Martin's add...

SDR, I agree wholeheartedly. FLW isn't the only one to suffer such a fate. I remember when the song "Inka Dinka Doo" was linked to Beethoven.

For the most part, the renovation of Williams looks very good, except for the white paint where the frieze was. There should not be a speck of white in that house. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

Plate glass dates back to 17th century France.

Hillside is a treasure. If it was all he did, it alone would justify FLW being regarded the greatest architect of all time. The drafting room should be filled with drafting tables with all the mess of a functioning practice. That was as important as the room itself.

Best FLW tour ever!!

The first time Ginny Kazor and I visited Fallingwater in 1988, we stayed at a lodge called (if memory serves) The Summit. It is (if it still is) a turn of the century building with a large lobby filled with priceless A&C furniture. That is the place to stay ... if it still is!

I would not say that the way we live today is more comfortable than, say, the way Coonley or Martin lived in the early 20th century. It is more the ways they achieved comfort that have been replaced by advanced technology. All the domestic comforts were achievable for those long-ago homeowners if th...

Who is the singer at 52 Kingfisher? Is it Renata Tebaldi?

Don't bother.

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It is true. The details of a building determined color in an orderly fashion, but as I understand it, white, if in the palette at all, was not dominant. Maybe the statues' teeth, nails and eyes? Not skin or hair.

First a note: Johnson's house was built 2 years before Farnsworth. The current kerfuffle over who is to become the anointed one and who is doomed to be ..., well, not ..., is ridiculously exaggerated. Adolf is dead. There is no more room for any of it anywhere. There has not been a hint of it from 2...