Wright Chat

Basically built onsite (NOT AT ALL EXPENSIVE) the walls must be very square and plumb, but the SHOULD be anyway. In some of my windows I use a product called G.E. Thermoclear, its a polycarbonite extrusion, I cut out a 45 degree notch just shy of the front face and then another to join it. Fold inst...

First of all Mr. Wright designed and built WELL OVER 100 homes. Second, many have said how uncomfortable Mr. Wright's chairs are. BULLHUNKY. I am five foot eleven and some 285 pounds. I'm big. I have sat in MANY Frank Lloyd Wright chairs over the past three decades. I have yet to sit in an uncomfort...

Well I live in Altadena and have been in the Beard house on many occasions. The scored lines on the floor do NOT lay out a construction grid as do Wright's USONIAN floors. They are the standard Southern California Spanish red scored concrete of their time. They do not have hot water radiant floor he...

Oh I knew Gus, he was quite a character. He never did admit he was the person who used the silicone paint on the blocks. He kept trying to get me to invent a process that would take it off, of course he wanted me to do it for the cause...........They always want it free for the cause......But Gus di...

I have used Citrus based paint /varnish stripper on paints but not yet on Boiled Linseed. You would end up doing the same amount of steel wooling, so there would be no advantage and its much more expensive than TSP

Oooops yes I do, I had been writing specs on drawings for sealing concrete and wrote Thompsons as if I were talking water sealer. Thompsons will turn the wood very dark.

Well a very un popular opinion...... Recently, at the top of the last bubble the A.E. Neuman estate by Llyod Wright sold in Pacific Palisades for $12Million. It was more or less pristine original and sitting on about five very nice acres of flat land. The Ennis house is a wreck. I did work for Auggi...

I've restored many Greene & Greene, Harwell Harris, James De Long, R.M. Schindler and Louis B. Easton homes. They all had softwoods, and they all had original finish with lindseed that had blackened. Your request is to be able to remove the blackened color from the wood and not have to sand the ...

A Stoddard-Dayton was indeed a very high quality and expensive car in its time. As was Mr. Wright's Packard touring that he owned while at Ocotillio, his first L-29 Cord (Although not as expensive as the very stoggie Pierce Arrow) and the 1937 Cord was priced with mid model Packards and below a Pier...

Somehow I can not think of Mr. Wrights work as thye past of Architecture as the newspaper review does. Nor do I think the new work is inspiring. It indeed leaves me cold and while it does in some ways stretch the technical envelope of glass, I for one would have rather they had adaptively reused the...

Long ago the Taliesin Fellowship made the trek twice a year between the two Taliesins. As I mentioned in the FLLW and his cars, I'm building a Wright inspired hot rod 1940 ford pick up. I want to recreate the journey between the two Taliesins with the truck. Does anyone have accurate information abo...

Mr. Wright's Stoddard Dayton was what was called in the teens a "Mother in Law Roadster" the third seat was for a adult to supervise a dating couple. My hobby is antique cars. My friend Pete Eastwood owns a Stoddard Dayton and he is President of that club. there seem to be no known extant ...

Uhhhh.... I LOVE spray in foam insulation BUT IT MUST NOT BE USED AS A WALL RETROFIT in any Historic home as the wall must be built with and for ventilation. If not built correctly the wood framing members will ROT and any masonry will degrade with trapped water. NO NO NO NO!!! Right impulse, wrong ...

If there is a source of inspiration for placing a house over a waterfall for Wright to have done this, it's more likely than anything that it was Olgivanna mentioning the fact to mr. Wright that Montenegran Monks often built meditation huts on pairs of logs over waterfalls......but neither the house...

Looks like RASTRA blocks. GREAT JOB ERIC!! Wish he got to do more of these in CALIFORNIA......