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Jeff Myers · Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 1795 Location: Tulsa

I am still interested in seeing the first scheme for Richard Lloyd Jones.
Goff's first all geometric design was I think 1925
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loo tee · Joined: 01 Dec 2012 Posts: 31

Many thanks to Kevin for posting this lovely house by Aaron Green. To my eye, it's more appealing and sensible than Wright's nearby "Honeycomb" house. Sometimes the pupil surpasses the master.

JimM · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 1457

Lloyd Jones 1; Taschen.... SDR posted this in the "30/60" thread

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Jeff Myers · Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 1795 Location: Tulsa

Wow JimM thanks. It is great to see it in color, which I did not know.
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SDR · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 17611 Location: San Francisco

Any hope of reading the room functions on the plan ? There's a "great hall" (perhaps) with centered fireplace, on the left, and a smaller pair of spaces -- one with a fireplace, and steps up or down in front of it. Is that a billiard table in grey ?

SDR

Jeff Myers · Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 1795 Location: Tulsa

It should read similar to the built. We should add a plan of built second plan to compare.
If this were the built plan I wonder what others would say besides "the pickle factory". The art deco house maybe? It would be harder to classify in the history of the city, we call the built Streamlined. I know Wright would hate that,I obviously classify it as to unique to be any form of Art Deco.
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Macrodex · Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 234

I would love to see the plans of the Paul house -- which didn't seem to get posted in the previous thread.

SDR · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 17611 Location: San Francisco

Surprisingly, this is still (nominally) the Paul house thread. And speaking of names, perhaps Kevin could amend his title post to correct the spelling of the client's wife's name ?

Yes, I too would like to see the Paul plan. Am I correct in believing this to be a 30-60 grid house ? That places it within the discussion, elsewhere, of the entry of that grid into Wright's work . . . ?

SDR

BBuck · Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 221 Location: Fort Worth

Yes, would love to see a plan. What a beautiful compact design. The Paul house looks to be on a 4' X 4' parallelogram?

I was comparing the early images from Aaron Green's website to those in the listing site. It looks to be in very good and unaltered condition.

View from Google Maps:
http://tinyurl.com/ahgm8cm

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DavidC · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 6877 Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Roderick Grant · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 9203

DavidC, there are two photographs of the Paul House in the 1959 HB (pp 328-9) but no floor plan, although there is a plan of Bartholomew, which EP may have been referring to? In the 1956 HB, there are no images nor plans of Paul, but there is a fetching photograph of a beautiful woman on page 231 wearing a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with Parliament cigarettes.

Education Professor · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 590

I've checked my files, and the Paul house is indeed featured in detail in the Nov. 1956 edition of HB.....pp. 238-242 and following pages. Several photos and a floor plan are included.

EP

DavidC · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 6877 Location: Oak Ridge, TN

RG & EP - thanks for the further info.

EP - is there anyway for you to scan the pertinent info from the Nov. HB and pass it along to SDR to post?

David

Education Professor · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 590

Hi David, I'll give it a go. Our scanner is rather low-tech and sometimes the results aren't very good.

EP

Roderick Grant · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 9203

Sorry, EP, I was looking at The FLW issue of HB, November of 1955.