Wright Chat

I should have explained ... that I only came upon this thread a few days ago ... and read all 16 pages at one time. On page two SDR likens the plan of the Anderegg house to the Loveness House ... and I merely pointed out that the genesis for both plans is found in Mr. Wright's design of the Hause ho...

The Usonian House is undoubtedly the Faculty House featured in Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1937-1941... plates 165-166. The plan is a slight variation of the more commonly known Hause house project from the 1940 Usonia housing development for Lansing, Michigan ... the same design which, over the y...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: Reply with quote So would her heirs (and FLW's) continue to receive funds from the foundation? Not being party to anyone's will, I can't say what is due or not due, but this I do know: Mrs. Wright sold much of what few things Mr. Wright left her, pe...

Have the original plans ever been published? Not to my knowledge. Could you post some of them? No. I don't have access to them. The fact that they changed is not proof that Wright changed them. True, but if he didn't who did? I briefly saw what I took to be the original drawings at Taliesin West dur...

It has always been my opinion, from what I have read and heard, that Wrights involvement was limited to the design, fabrication and application of the textile blocks ... . To what extent he inserted himself into the total design, past being that of a 'consultant on the project', we may never be cer...

An owner I met at a Conservancy conference years ago said that these are, legally, entirely separate properties and not a condo. Don't know if the story is apocryphal or not, but I have a distinct memory of BBPfeiffer telling me, decades ago, that one unit burned ... without affecting the other thr...

http://sdrdesign.com/Lovness1955Plan.jpg Lovness(sic), 1955 (plan from W A Storrer) Well. . .maybe. The workspace (kitchen) is not in the same location. But there are other similarities. SDR Yes, and the Loveness House is based on the 1939 C.D. Hause project for Usonia II (and one of the faculty ho...

Never having seen the older curtain, I can't say if the design was the same, or only similar, but obviously top portions of the older curtain were much different. The present curtain was cleaned and refurbished two years ago, before being put on display at the Guggenheim Museum, where it held court ...

Wright, where it belongs PASSIONS A new house is believed to be the first since the architect's death to rise on its intended site. June 09, 2005|Diane Haithman | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Colleagues describe Joe Massaro as a can-do kind of guy. When he heard that 11-acre Petre Island in Lake M...

Building the Pauson House is a wonderful book ... brief, and to the point. I believe the best part, besides the to me "new" photographs, are the parade of floor plans. To see Mr. Wright's first idea going through permutation after permutation, until Rose Pauson finally obtained his undivided attenti...

Is a wonderful book ... brief, and to the point. I believe the best part, besides the to me "new" photographs, are the parade of floor plans. To see Mr. Wright's first idea going through permutation after permutation, until Rose Pauson finally obtained his undivided attention, which resulted in the ...

Is a wonderful book ... brief, and to the point. I believe the best part, besides the to me "new" photographs, are the parade of floor plans. To see Mr. Wright's first idea going through permutation after permutation, until Rose Pauson finally obtained his undivided attention, which resulted in the ...

Yes ... I'm always astonished whenever I meet a new FLLW fireplace, as they each have such incredible individuality. One fireplace that caught my youthful fancy was pictured in colour in an issue of Fortune Magazine back in the 40's or 50's (have the magazine here, somewhere). It was the tiny corner...

SDR wrote:Right. I'm thinking a book on the fireplaces would be an attractive proposition -- but I'm too lazy to propose it to anyone. All in due time, I suppose.
S

Ask and it shall be given:

http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/a797.html

Carla Lind's book on FLLW Fireplaces

There are some similarities between the Pauson and Grant plans -- but the site conditions dictated/provided for entirely different approach and entry sequences, wouldn't you say ? S D R That's exactly what I said ... time, place, and client needs dictated changes in disposition and resulting form ,...