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I've added a driveway view of the house, to the images on the previous page.
And, for good measure, here's a photo of a driveway gate at Sander, and an 18-foot closet-door mural by Gene Masselink, on the west wall near the entry of the house:

photo © Dave Anderson

And, for good measure, here's a photo of a driveway gate at Sander, and an 18-foot closet-door mural by Gene Masselink, on the west wall near the entry of the house:

photo © Dave Anderson

Last edited by SDR on Tue May 07, 2019 11:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I agree with Matt2 - kinda reminds me of the cantilever at Wingspread over undramatically flat ground.
Of course I know NOTHING about Sander, but the black gate strikes me as something Wright would not have done, first the color and second - overall just too heavy.
Then there is the surprising hipped roof over the carport. Then the Zimmerman perfs. It all seems a big mash up, striving for creativity, only achieving eclecticism.
I'll go look for the Sander thread and review it.
Of course I know NOTHING about Sander, but the black gate strikes me as something Wright would not have done, first the color and second - overall just too heavy.
Then there is the surprising hipped roof over the carport. Then the Zimmerman perfs. It all seems a big mash up, striving for creativity, only achieving eclecticism.
I'll go look for the Sander thread and review it.
I hope you can find it; I couldn't, using Google . . .
Yes, there is that quality of "big ado about nothing" to the cantilever. I wish we could see it as built, without the perimeter glazing.
Here are a couple of further illustrations. The section reveals that the house straddles---and hides---a huge boulder or rock formation.
The gate might be called "Darth." Pfeiffer credits Wright with the mural; Storrer gives it to Masselink.




Storrer---a photo caption explains the glazing:
Taschen:
© 1986 A.D.A EDITA Tokyo Co., © 2009 by TASCHEN GmbH and by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
© 1993 by William Allin Storrer
Yes, there is that quality of "big ado about nothing" to the cantilever. I wish we could see it as built, without the perimeter glazing.
Here are a couple of further illustrations. The section reveals that the house straddles---and hides---a huge boulder or rock formation.
The gate might be called "Darth." Pfeiffer credits Wright with the mural; Storrer gives it to Masselink.




Storrer---a photo caption explains the glazing:

Taschen:

© 1986 A.D.A EDITA Tokyo Co., © 2009 by TASCHEN GmbH and by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
© 1993 by William Allin Storrer
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"Alien" is a bit extreme. It is an overblown version of a scheme that seems much more comfortable at the Sturges scale than Sander, but the kinship remained obvious even upon construction.
As I have pointed out before, it is easier to take a large structure down a notch, such as Beth Shalom did to the Cathedral for a Million People, than to take a modest-sized building and amp it up.
The hemicycles, for instance, at the scale of Jacobs II are more successful than Rayward-Shepherd, even as originally built without all the add-ons.
Sander is not a bad design, but just a bit hefty compared to Sturges.
The hipped roof and concomitant plastered ceilings are unfortunate.
I believe the balcony was enclosed after construction, and the master bedroom was expanded to include the balcony as a workspace for Mrs. Sander, who was a writer, I believe.
Aesthetically, it doesn't work from the exterior, but the interior is not bad.
If Sturges had not been built, Sander would probably not be criticized harshly, but by comparison it fails.
As I have pointed out before, it is easier to take a large structure down a notch, such as Beth Shalom did to the Cathedral for a Million People, than to take a modest-sized building and amp it up.
The hemicycles, for instance, at the scale of Jacobs II are more successful than Rayward-Shepherd, even as originally built without all the add-ons.
Sander is not a bad design, but just a bit hefty compared to Sturges.
The hipped roof and concomitant plastered ceilings are unfortunate.
I believe the balcony was enclosed after construction, and the master bedroom was expanded to include the balcony as a workspace for Mrs. Sander, who was a writer, I believe.
Aesthetically, it doesn't work from the exterior, but the interior is not bad.
If Sturges had not been built, Sander would probably not be criticized harshly, but by comparison it fails.
You may have missed the last post, wherein I find a caption to Storrer's photo (shown previously) in which he mentions that the glazing as "storm windows"---so, presumably, installed seasonally.
Would you say that the newly-revealed Swan version of Sturges (see p 7) is a more successful expansion of the earlier design than is Sander ?
It, unlike Sander, does not try to become a new animal, opting instead to retain virtually all of the fabric devised for the Sturges prototype.
Does Swan satisfy (aesthetically) more than Sander---or is the reverse the case, do you think ?
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Would you say that the newly-revealed Swan version of Sturges (see p 7) is a more successful expansion of the earlier design than is Sander ?
It, unlike Sander, does not try to become a new animal, opting instead to retain virtually all of the fabric devised for the Sturges prototype.
Does Swan satisfy (aesthetically) more than Sander---or is the reverse the case, do you think ?
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SDR, I haven't scrutinized the Swan plans adequately, but at a glance, it would seem that it is a better scheme than Sander. But Sturges got it right in the first place, so Swan seems to be unnecessary.
Swan would have benefitted by placing that third bedroom where the Sturges' expansion was to have been located. Where Sturges' upper reaches are slightly battered and provides for a roof terrace,
Swan is vertical and without a terrace. That, too, makes Sturges superior to Swan.
Overall, I think Swan looks like an apprentice-edited Sturges, and the changes don't help.
Swan would have benefitted by placing that third bedroom where the Sturges' expansion was to have been located. Where Sturges' upper reaches are slightly battered and provides for a roof terrace,
Swan is vertical and without a terrace. That, too, makes Sturges superior to Swan.
Overall, I think Swan looks like an apprentice-edited Sturges, and the changes don't help.
I had hoped this thread wouldn't become a study of one or another of the house projects seen at the auction site---but that was perhaps a futile hope.
Looking for a photo of the Sander balcony without storm sash in place, I find instead a view of the gate that's at odds with what's seen in Dave Anderson's undated photo:
http://www.dsoderblog.com/springbough/
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Looking for a photo of the Sander balcony without storm sash in place, I find instead a view of the gate that's at odds with what's seen in Dave Anderson's undated photo:
http://www.dsoderblog.com/springbough/
S