Wright Chat

Thanks, Owen. Mr Wright encouraged or assigned apprentices to do graphic design; perhaps he even "let pass" the resulting work, without editing. But,
as with the buildings, shouldn't w ...

So---are we convinced that all of these patterns are from the hand of Mr Wright ? I don't recognize half of them---and this final sentence makes me think that maybe there was some latter-day "in ...

There are now some Frank Lloyd Wright designs on the custom fabric website Spoonflower.

https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/334096-frank-lloyd-wright-pillows-by-spoonflower

I will be intere ...

Well patron expectations have evolved over the years, and a lot of performing arts venues have had to expand their front of house to meet those expectations. Expanding bar fare and having a small caba ...

IT takes time but eventually loads up on my computer. This link worked for me:

http://franklloydwright.org/3dlab/

Nice use of 3d scanning. Fun to look around the different rooms. Still exploring ...

I can understand how someone who lived at Taliesin would say that it is gone. The spark and life in a community is a incredibly delicate thing. And is hard to truly understand for people that were not ...

I visited the place and thought it was great.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/258/20341973205_ef913808f4_z.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/wZxVVX]Toured a house designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright& ...

Having only seen her sculpture, images of her costumes and videos of her dances, there is no denying that she was an intensely creative person. It is such a loss. I wish I could have met her.

View of the stage today (or at least July 2017 before replacement of roof panels)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4706/26748940348_03e8df524f_c.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/GKHj3G]View of Pavilion stag ...

Ultimately it had Wooden trusses for the first version and then Steel in the 1964 rebuild.

The back wall Changed over the years. It would be interesting to know if any of those draftings in the App ...

the image posted above is titled Pavilion Concrete Roof. But of course that could be mislabeled.

The roof in the image is very different than the final one. The only original concrete roofs were the Kiva and the Cabaret, you are right. Probably not a coincidence that both places were intended to ...

Finally got to searching thru the Appendices of the Taliesin West Preservation Master plan.

Some great images of the pavilion.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4619/40558860992_222ac518ef_c.jpg[ur ...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4619/40558860992_222ac518ef_c.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/24N3LjL]ScreenShot by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/ccstudio/]Owen Collins, on Flickr

Oh my goodness this is an amazing resource. Did you see the drawings of the pavilion, one mentions a concrete roof.