Wright Chat

Got the selcted poetry of Robinson Jeffers frm the library today.

The involvement of Mills in the design and building of Nat and Margaret Owings' Wild Bird is described (it was a longtime family friendship of Margaret with the Mills family that brought Mark into the project) Doug Always suspected something like this. In a sense it's her house. Nat let her do her ...

Me too, just tried the Cal Poly Archives site.
The thumbnails are there but only big black rectangle when clicked
too enlarge.

The wood roof at Farrar:
Only time I’ve seen anything else like that was the second floor construction at Suntop homes.
Can’t help but wonder how this was done and what was used to keep the weather out on top.

Had no idea that Greene went to Carmel. Very cool house. Got a new area to pursue now. Thank you very much. ...I know nothing about Jeffers beyond what I've been able to glimpse from The Tor House site and my Wiki search. ... I agree the US needed to be all in against the Axis Powers. Yet, my study,...

The Life Magazine article on Farrar seems well written.
I learned somethings from it.
Among these is Robinson Jeffers who, regrettably, I'd never heard of before.
Anyway, looks like he's the soul of Carmel:

http://www.torhouse.org

It’s not Breuer It’s Soleri I did not know that Mills was a collaborator with Soleri - the Dome House - for example, until this thread. If you didn’t know that, like me, then the appearance of the Farrar House would seem out of the blue and curious.. Soleri makes it understandab...

Just read that the Farrar house (they named it "Far Away") was demolished in 1990.

Look what I found Not sure where the link will come in but this is the best I've seen of the house so far: scroll up first https://books.google.com/books?id=NFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=farrar+house+mark+mills&source=bl&ots=lpMEVS_7se&sig=ACfU3U3G7YNv4_lvPkmDRHr0EAXKEa7...

RG: yes, it has that strange non-architectural association ...cartoonish association. On the other hand I've come to find, to my surprise, that I really like the Farrar house. Looks like it's a single room, and single bedroom house. The only thing I find missing there is natural light coming through...

The Haas House is my least favorite of all - certainly of all the concrete houses.

the B&W of the dining room shows the glass wall in it's original location. The color shot from DRN shows the glass wall in a new expanded location. I assume the the floor is a radiant slab? The concrete Huntington Hartford pier at the end of the dining bench supports one end of a frame and gives...

Would like to know how the timbers of the frame are secured to the masonry base wall.

Exactly right - good observation
Not sure but I think Mills mounts the A-Frame on a low peripheral
wall, giving him a little height before the Frames angle inward.
(Not in the case of WildBird however.)

Its great to see inside!
thaks DRN, thanks SDR
I love the bent steel candle holder.