Wright Chat

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Ethics? Who needs 'em...

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I've been dealing with this problem by leaving the page open all the time, though inevitably I forget and close it, which means repeating the process again when I want to post. I rarely used the email option, but it's concerning that it doesn't function. I would like to get an email when I receive a...

The bench is well designed, and appears to be well built. Kudos to Eric O'Malley for honoring Mr. Szymczak with such a sensitive gesture.

"Crazy...nut job...showboat...grandstander?" Who comes to mind? http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trump-or-comey-whos-the-real-nut-job-here Trump has been a huge hit in Saudi Arabia, arguably the most repressive regime in the world. The President of Egypt was feeling the love, too...

I just yesterday contacted Margo Stipe to see if I could get an answer directly from Bruce Pfeiffer. I haven't heard back yet. Did you ask him recently, or maybe when the house came up for sale in 2008? I think some of the archived drawings and correspondences were in disarray. In our archives, draw...

My source, "Contemporary Classics" (McGraw-Hill or Whitney Library, 1981; 1990) has these dimensions for the Barcelona Chair: 30" W, 30" D, 30" H, seat height 17". SDR Generally, furniture dimensions have become larger with the increased girth of the American populatio...

The dimensions of these chairs vary wildly when documented by auction houses and vintage dealers, mostly due to how they are measured. The frame dimensions are smaller than with the cushions. And cushions with age change shape and size slightly. My Knoll pair from the 1970s are 30 1/4" wide, 30...

Here's Knoll's timeline and essay by Peter Jefferson (from Wright Auctions in Chicago). In 1931 Bamberg made the lap-jointed chair with the one square meter dimension Roderick refers to. One meter is approximately 39 inches. http://www.knoll-int.com/design-deconstructed-barcelona-chair Another early...

Yes, that's strange, especially considering Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer later included Lamberson in his more recent "Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works Vol. 3, 1943–1959". Professor Storrer also includes it. I'm glad you brought it up. I've been meaning to contact Mr. Pfeiffer and see if there'...

The asymmetrical nature of Wright houses almost demands that the entrance be placed somewhere on the "side" of the house, that is if we consider the street side to be the "front". It seems to me that the intention of hiding the front door is to aid in opening up the floor plan, a...

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"...No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly..."

DT May 17th, 2017, commencement address to Coast Guard graduates.

The chair is missing the back cushion, which would, of course, increase the level of comfort substantially:

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Obstruction of justice? Since we have no reason to believe anything coming from Trump or his spokespersons anymore, I'm going with The FBI director. Comey was smart in keeping a paper trail: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html "An ...