Wright Chat

Please enlighten me how changing the color is easy enough to accomplish.

Paul, See Affleck house in Bloomfield Hills Michigan (1940). It is an all wood exterior with Sikkens, Cetol 1 & 23, very beauitful. They were restoring all the exterior wood in I believe 2000. Visited a couple times since then...It looks great. Dobkins originally used spar varnish for years till he ...

The design for John Dobkins has a full page of drawings dedicated to the out door barbecue. It was never built, but I must admit have toyed with the idea of having it built.
I will need to dig out the drawings to post the page on the barbecue here.

For those of you who might not have heard, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy held their annual meeting in San Francisco this past week. Congratulations is in order for one of our own Wright Chatters. Peter and his wife Irmi Maunu received the "Wright Spirit Award" in the Private Category f...

That is in the first bedroom and the door that is in the picture
opens to the lanai.

My wife Dianne and I will attend the whole conference including the post conference tour on Sunday.
We look forward to seeing everyone.

William Allin Storrer correctly spell it Olfelt.
Hess and Weintraub correctly spell it Olfelt

A number of years ago my wife and I went to a wedding in Minnesota basically to take side trips to tour the Olfelt and the the 2 Lovness usonians. We enjoyed meeting Virginia and had a wonderful tour of her home studio and cottage. She is a real dear. Sorry to say we did not meet the Olflelt's and d...

Years ago Mike and Palli, Holubar and I visited the home and grounds before you purchased it. We were in total agreement that the house was unique and also it was going to take a total commitment on the new owners part to bring it around. You and your family should be proud of what you accomplished ...

Good work Dan. I replaced one door screen and one casement screen 18 years ago, and only now are they drastically changing color and looking more like the original screens installed in 1954. They must have had a coating on them from the time they were manufactured. You should feel good knowing that ...

I remember clearly the Sunday morning at the Biltmore Hotel, sitting outside in the morning sun, of course with fully saturated clear blue skies. Dianne, John and I were discussing the conference we just attended. We enjoyed, very much, hearing what he had to say about the houses we toured, but espe...

Besides the usual amount of coal I receive each Holiday season I lucked out this year, for I received a copy of "The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, The Kraus House." Written by Jane King Hession with a Foreword by Jack Quinan. The book has great photos (by Bill Olexy) along with informat...

John,

Did you document, with pictures, the scoring on the module lines?
Sure would have liked to have seen the process of the scoring...

How long do you let the concrete mat dry before applying the sealer?

In one of your pics I counted 6 men working. How many in total were there?

It's not like you can slip that chair under your coat, and and out the door.

Guess they will need a guard in the lobby from now on.

Dan, Christine, this project is the ultimate in tender loving care.
Time to take some time off, kick back and enjoy.
Sorry we could not attend the conference this year, we will need to get together soon. Would love to hear in more detail about all the work performed at Sweeton.