Wright Chat

Fair enough. The conclusion is that any material palette can be a part of such a relationship, I guess. I have no quarrel with that. So, what is different about the Usonian experience when it comes to a connection to nature ? Aren't any of the Case Study houses (for instance) capable of delivering t...

There's lots to see in non-Yukio photos, of course. . .

Tom Ploch

Balthazar Korab

Hope that white paint disappears ! I'm intrigued by the beam (?) flying through space in the living room photo. . .

SDR

I agree. Addressing Ed, a few exceptions don't much detract from the general theme, I suppose. As for the ubiquitous Eames lounger (as they are calling it) I begin to wonder if it is just too comfortable (to many if not to all -- see endless discussion of same at DesignAddict) to be discarded from t...

W A Storrer shows the 1908 Davidson house (S.149) in this photo; Manson has no illustration of the house. The lettering of the drawings he presents seems to be in the same hand as some of the Wasmuth plates, but in English. The house does not appear there, either. This house was perhaps an early tri...

Right. Good image. The reverse is just as unsettling, in the two post-war Neutra houses (one a Case Study entry) in which the materials are wood and brick. (In one of these the brick mortar was allowed to ooze from the joints, in a curious in not intentional comment on Wright's carefully-raked joint...

Dissenters will point to the very different nature of the "solid back wall" of the Kings Road house, vs the Usonian one: RMS was working through some concrete experiments of his own at the time (see Pueblo Ribera slip-form walls), and the tapered lift-slab panels at Kings Road contrast sha...

I think so. Schindler famously credited a trip to Yosemite for his inspiration; he wrote "This theme fulfills the basic requirements for a camper's shelter: a protected back, an open front, a fireplace and a roof." "Our rooms will descend close to the ground and the garden will become...

RMS 1922

FLLW 1957

The 'edit' function seems to come and go, lately. . .

Well, he built most of his stuff himself (in the position of supervisor of construction, that is) so he had a lot of control. By the mid-thirties he was doing houses that looked ahead to the forms of the post-war period. There is no doubt, of course, that he was excited by what Wright had done and w...

The Domino's chair, later purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London





caption from the Domino's book by David A Hanks

Let's give it to Heinz, "based on a design by Frank Lloyd Wright." After all, isn't that how the Legacy program would have designated it ?
SDR

Almost nothing -- in Wright, at least -- seems to spring full-blown, without any precedents. But even if Wright had once, somewhere, referred to any of the LA work as "pre-Usonian," I can't really buy it. I'm still waiting for the definitive. . .definition of Usonian. Which of the later ho...

In Edgar Tafel's "About Wright" (1993) Iovanna (b 1925) has this to say about that: "Some time before the recent removal of my father's remains from Wisconsin to Arizona, I had discussed this matter with my mother. We were sitting together in the cove in the house in the desert, and s...