Wright Chat

Fallingwater sent me a very prompt reply. They said they had no record of The Rock being on display there. Furthermore, Franklin Toker's Fallingwater Rising says that the painting was displayed at eit ...

The Art Institute's page on the work says it was commissioned by the Kaufmanns and was on display at Fallingwater. The article you cited tells a slightly different story, but we know it belonged to th ...

SDR,

Thank you for the link to the art exhibit. I'm excited there's a catalogue for it as I'm fascinated by Blume's Surrealism.

Looking at the Art Institute's website, the painting is apparently ...

I follow the Art Institute of Chicago on Instagram, and they recently posted The Rock by Peter Blume

https://i.imgur.com/SFWC0PT.jpg

in situ? What else used to be at Fallingwater that isn't any ...

It wasn't a match for the Claremont for sure. But at least it seemed to float on its own alone. One got the impression it was a separate pavilion with a small attachment to the main building. It also ...

This proposal is analogous to attaching a Fabergé Egg to a GE microwave oven...or something.

Le mot juste!

Am I the only one who thinks this looks horrible? I mean, really horrible? It isn't the chapel and it isn't the hotel, but the two together don't match at all.

Meisolus mentioned a book he referred to as the little Wasmuth. Does anyone know what was the exact name of the book, the name of the publisher, and publication date?

When Wright published the W ...

I see something linear inside the terminals as well. I'm hoping to get some more information. A friend of mine did a lot of digging into the Universal Portland Cement Company and found a lot of great ...

SDR,

I added the photo to my post above. It's on the first page as well, along with the little bit of drawings we have for it. Thank you for the kind words!

I had wondered if they might be elect ...

Alright ladies and gents, here it is. This wasn't nearly the nightmare that Spaulding was, but it wasn't a cakewalk either, and there are still some issues with it.

Before I get to the items I'm st ...

I agree with you that gold isn't a neutral color SDR. I should have said it was "considered" one in my post above. I think it had more to do with the reflectivity than the actual "color ...

Two comments, first regarding this: Look at the habit of many of the Impressionists who framed their modern images in age-old, florid, gilded frames... I can't speak for all of the Impressionists, but ...

SDR - The pretty little pavilion is the Yarn Market in Dunster. It dates from the early 17th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_Market,_Dunster

I'm still looking for the house you poste ...

I'm pretty in love with this Eames house. I'm just waiting for there to be a murder at a dinner party and Hercule Poirot show up, looking exactly like David Suchet, of course.