Wright Chat

Poetic justice of a sort ? In any event, it's time we all caught up with the man and the place. For instance---Soleri died seven years and two months ago today, in Paradise Valley. Born in Turin, 100 years and 352 days ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri S You live long enough ... and y...

I don't require a lot of room to be comfortable, but the Fabris Mansion is a bit extreme. Could 2 persons sit in those two chairs without knocking knees? Don't know, but it's probably one reason I have never been inside the Fabris Cottage ... As for the "Engineer's Cottage" mention at the end of th...

Don't know but that the long walks (and drives!) to meals at Taliesin and at Taliesin West would make the walk from the Glore dining room to the living room a rather elegant affair, putting family and guests in an entirely new setting, making their final arrival a welcome opportunity to sit and rela...

Interesting tour, but, yes, both studios are no longer much used ... unless through some miracle the School reconstitutes itself. I do have several comments ... First ...I believe Arnold Roy still uses his draughting table, which is located to the far left of the portrait of Mr. Wright in the corner...

Yes...modern in the Northwest really has its seeds in the Bay Area vernacular work of Wurster et al. Wood and a lot of T&G vertical siding. Yeon and Belluschi worked in that vein in Portland, Oregon, creating some very crisp houses...sort of photo- post-and-beam. Belluschi was the more serious by f...

I hope you're working on a book or some memoirs, Rood; you have a priceless trove of anecdotes---and who knows what else ! S Hmm... something I've resisted doing for decades. Indeed, Indira recently begged me (again) to finally submit something for the record. And ... some want a tell-all book, whi...

The 'road' is actually a driveway with a gate across at the highway. Google Maps cannot enter, so I doubt you can drive up the road without an invitation. The aerial view shows that the house has been vastly enlarged. My sister and I visited the house many years ago, so I don't know anything about ...

I find the drawings of Chahroudi very intriguing, but when the house was finally built found the design rather clunky. Something about the band that is the balcony parapet wall and the band of the roof fascia doesn't work for me. The drawing above makes it look like the home was intended for a fore...

The walls of Pfeiffer House were built with 2 x 4's ... and before the walls were enclosed, fiberglass batts were stapled in ... but during that night a strong wind came up. The next morning most of those batts were found scattered all over the mountain side. Most of the construction was done by a t...

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Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:51 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright's Garden Room at Taliesin West - (3:57) David

Are we to understand in order to see the video ... we must first join Facebook? God forbid!

A reader of this thread wrote in to the Conservancy office to share a newspaper article with some more background on the Donahoes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vm5g6tcwwiqxxm7/IMG_0303.JPG?dl=0 Interesting article, but of course the final sentence is not quite accurate. Perhaps Mr. Wright didn't overs...

Semi-comfortable group dining accommodation abounds at T West, apparently. Here is the full photo of the Cabaret, and one of the Garden Room (should these be capitalized ?), both appearing on the same page of "FLLW's House Beautiful" (Diane Maddex; Hearst Books ©2000). No dates are given for photo...

There is, for instance, no Greene & Greene Dodge house---in Pasadena or anywhere else; perhaps Scully is thinking of Irving Gill's Walter Luther Dodge house in West Hollywood (1914-16), which has nothing to do with Wright, Millard, or Greene. S Scully frequently tended to get carried away with hims...

Never been in the house, but the "square" in the corner of the kitchen drawing might very well refer to the skylight, one corner of which is visible in one of the photos. The brick "pier" in the kitchen is undoubtedly the chimney serving the ground floor utility room. The rectangle in the utility ro...

I've been looking at the first photograph on this page, and I've finally noticed what makes it so eerie: the sky is dark, instead of light. How did Mr Teske achieve that effect ? Is it paint ? The smoggy years in LA were never that bad, were they ? I detect faint signs of writing and other marks, i...