Wright Chat

Perfection. Unmolested too. Let's hope it is founded on rock rather than slipping soil, and that it finds a new owner who recognizes that great wealth does not require one to measure the value of their abodes in terms of square feet. The large, mullionless sheets of glass in the living room and the ...

This is a link to a folder which has all of the Western Pennsylvania videos by Skyline Ink. The 1941 Farm Cottage and the 1956 Usonian Automatic staff houses are included. https://vimeo.com/showcase/10730789 The Point development, though visually fantastic, makes me wince at the thought of that uniq...

That's either a professional reproduction or an actual Martin house window casually on display behind Gordon!

It is neither.

It's difficult to distill down to a "Top 5" given that I admire so many Wright houses for their unique qualities. Of the built houses, my top 5 as of this moment, in order of design date are: - Goetsch-Winckler , Okemos, MI (1940) - Curtis Meyer , Galesburg, MI (1948) - J.A Sweeton , Cherr...

Neat idea for a book!
The cars in order of appearance in the linked article:
1957 Chevrolet BelAir

1965 Pontiac Vivant concept car
( more here https://www.motortrend.com/features/196 ... -analysis/ )

1963 Studebaker Avanti

1972ish Citroen SM

An interesting series of photos of the relocation of the D&G Guesthouse to another portion of the house's lot: https://www.wolfehousebuildingmovers.com/project/guest-house-relocation-at-david-and-gladys-wright-house/ The compact footprint of the guesthouse and its very substantial slab base (alm...

From the Wright Society weekly newsletter: Booth Name Removed From Wright-Designed Cottage in Glencoe, IL The Chicago Tribune reports that the Glencoe Historical Society has removed the name of Sherman Booth from a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage after discovering the wide-ranging extent of Boot...

I’ve been geeking on the Parker Garage… I’m wanting to find what the site conditions were like and possibly to see the site’s context from GoogleEarth if it still exists. The linked article notes the garage as being planned for Parker’s country house, “Stonehenge”, but study of the two versions of t...

Indeed.

I also thought it notable that the first correspondence I’ve seen from Wright written in long hand is to a pen magnate.

I’m interested to see the site condition at Parker’s estate that led to the angular plan geometry. The use at Fallingwater seemed more for effect than functionality.

A bit of a backstory to the garage commission for George Parker:
https://parkersheaffer.com/george-s-par ... rage%20for

Great animation!
The bit about the demolition company going bankrupt was a story I’ve heard before, but it was in reference to the Larkin Building….

Fact check? Pat?

Some photos from the TAA archive at OA+D:
https://catalog.oadarchives.org/index.p ... tions/1422

Disassembly and relocation of a 77' tall steel spire set 40' or more feet above grade is not an easy or inexpensive undertaking. While the spire would have been lowered by crane in any case as part of the demolition, less care and more cutting would have resulted to ease the scrapping of the steel. ...

Apparently, the Madison ASBH was built by A.B. Groves Building Company: http://www.flwright.us/FLW2107.htm I had to do a double take on this as the Groves name seemed to ring familiar. On page 69 of the paperback edition of FLlW’s The Natural House, and page 18 of Herbert and Katherine Jacobs’ “Buil...

Other than some fall hazards for small children at the guard rails on the stair and landing, this is a great (big) house.