Wright Chat

They really aren't married to the house very well, are they . . . The one on the right in the final shot looks like it wants to take off for Jupiter, or something. Odd . . .

S

When an architect doesn’t understand balance and composition, I would prefer they leave the virtuosity behind and just make a nice box.

This just doesn’t work.

Speaking of what can (or can't) be called Wright styled, what do you think about this house? It's located in Santa Barbara, CA, and is described as "Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired.

So far, I can see that it's not entirely unjustified, but how accurate would be this description? The same company did offer actual FLW villas in the past, so they're not trying to compensate something either.

Thank you for that submission, Balalaika762. No, this is not very close to Wright; one might call it Craftsman-like ? The house has lost it's most
Wrightian feature, perhaps: a roof with generous overhangs all around, the gable ends canted and the eaves extended horizontally. The roof pitch
is about right for a Prairie hip roof; Wright's gable roofs of the period have a bit more of a rise to them, strange to say ?

The early photos are very useful in assessing the present-day remains. Can you be specific about which Wright houses the company has presented
in the past ? That's an interesting note.

SDR

When does a house become a villa?

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Classical Rocking Chair


David

Heh...sneaky seller. The rocking chair IS related to the photo in the catalog, but the caption for the catalog photo ( Chairs 60) is beneath the continued description of a FLW Unity Temple chair (Chairs 59) pictured elsewhere, either previous page, or this page out of frame.

Thanks for divining the source or basis of that "error," Dan. I've written the seller . . . pointing out that Wright never included naturalistic detail in decorative design . . .

SDR

From Curbed, a nice FLW inspired house by architect Verne Lars Solberg.

https://www.curbed.com/2018/8/30/178005 ... oyd-wright

That house is gem! It is legitimately labeled "Wright inspired".

for sale
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/expo/lif ... -home.html

Aside from the roof, there's little of Wright in the Singapore house, which is nevertheless an impressive affair. The previous house might be Wrightian in feel, beneath and within a constructivist framework ? Very nice . . .

SDR

Not Wrightian, but it brings the outside in. Nice mid-century modern vibe.

With all that glass it is probably not the house you would build in northern Minnesota.

http://www.contemporist.com/new-contemp ... alifornia/