Wright Chat

I got a kick out of the last paragraph of the Times story: But he did respond in April to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan when he objected to Christie's auctioning eight other windows from the Martin house. "Those windows must come back to the Martin house," Mr. Moynihan told Jacek A. Wyso...

Well done ! I don't see the point of discussing art and design without the necessary visual references. I'm certainly enjoying my part in the process. I'll keep going 'til I run out of room in my iPhoto cache -- AT&T seems to have no storage limit in their (my) Small Business Web Hosting facilit...

If, as W A Storrer says, the first coat of paint found on the exterior is light blue, could it be that the original stucco was unpainted (i e, integrally colored) ?

SDR

I found the Lincolns on this page. Frankly, I prefer the unaltered model, but it's a pleasure to see good pictures of his customized one. (He bought two of the first Continentals off the line, and gave one to "one of his daughters" who promptly wrecked it, apparently !) Joel Silver apparen...

On the matter of wood finish preservation, a recent episode of "This Old House" demonstrated the use of liquid TCP in the removal of decades of grime from the surface of interior woodwork such as newel posts and stair handrails. "It's basically elbow grease" was the stated techni...

p 147 of the same book: APPENDIX Guidelines for collecting the decorative designs of Frank Lloyd Wright Based on the recommendations of The Domino's Pizza Preservation Committee, the following guidelines have been adopted by The National Center for the Study of Frank Lloyd Wright for The Domino's Pi...

Mr Monaghan's preface to "FLW -- Preserving an architectural heritage" by David A Hanks (E P Dutton, 1989), p 11: PREFACE My interest in Frank Lloyd Wright began at the age of twelve, when I discovered a book about this important American architect in the Traverse City, Michigan, library c...

June 27, 1993 ARTS/ARTIFACTS; A Wealth of Wright Designs Is Dispersed By RITA REIF THROUGHOUT THE 1980'S, Thomas S. Monaghan, the founder, owner and chairman of Domino's Pizza, often paid huge prices for designs by Frank Lloyd Wright. And, for a time, Domino's corporate collection was the most compr...

This sentence is found on the Wikipedia page for Mr Monaghan:

"He even purchased a portion of Drummond Island in Michigan, where he created a private resort complex featuring buildings designed in the style of Wright."

SDR

Professor Storrer's plan of the Kraus residence, with a dramatic photo looking northwest that takes in the entry doors (left). I note that this is one of the Wright house plans that includes a parallelogramatic bed. Though there appears to be room for a normal bed if necessary, I wonder if the Kraus...

Hard to tell what it really is from such a distance ! I'm basing my provisional approval on the two small residential towers Mr Meier completed in Manhattan (on Manhattan ?), which were quite tasty and (of course) restrained. The only bombast from his office that I can think of is the Getty palace c...

Yes. I guess I accept as inevitable that each possible variant of architectural expression will be pursued, by someone, and that we can only hope that the best work in each variant will be recognized. . .

You can hear me struggling to avoid the word 'style' !

SDR

I admire Mr Meier for pursuing a vision of purist architecture at a high level of quality and internal consistency, over a long career. I enjoyed the series of houses that he produced, starting in the late nineteen-sixties. About as far from Wright as you can get, for sure. . .!

SDR

There's no doubt that an all-wood interior is now, and may have been then, a luxury compared to the alternatives. (When was gypsum board introduced ?) Neutra loved innovative materials, certainly. (Wright's all-steel designs for Los Angeles, 1938, must have been a response to Neutra's work, don't yo...