Wright Chat

Mike, are you still giving tours? If so, could a visitor arrange in advance to get on one of your tours, say, in January or February (even at the lat minute if necessary)?

It is Berry Von Hungen, a close friend of Aaron Green and family. Full name Richard Berry Von Hungen Groth. He is mentioned in the signature tile thread in April 2015. A number of books, inscribed by Aaron Green to Mr. Von Hungen, were sold on eBay last year. Not sure if this means Mr. Von Hungen ha...

In the Ken Burns / Lynn Novick film, grandson Tim Wright states that his grandfather was 5' 7" tall.

In the film "Frank Lloyd Wright and His Inner Circle: A Grandson's View", Brandoch Peters says he was one of the few people who knew how tall his grandfather was: 5' 8.5".

the box is 5"x5"x3"; tile 1.5"x1.5". I received this and other "things" when everyone knew "the perfect gift" for me. Clocks, coasters, tree ornaments, you name it…….what else can you say except "thank you" (books always welcome!). When did...

For what it's worth, in Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass & Lightscreens (p. 50 of the paperback edition printed in 2000), author Thomas A. Heinz writes: "Luxfer prisms spread quickly throughout the U.S. and Europe. Wright designed many prism plate patterns, but fewer than five different o...

He did, however, get one thing right, he compared Marin to a shopping mall, to which FLW would have agreed. I read this book more than a year ago and don't remember much about it, but on p. 54 Graves is quoted with the following indictment of the Marin County Civic Center: "All fifty-one defin...

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I don't fine Island Woolen Company in the Monos, Taschen or Storrer. My Storrer books list S143 as Horseshoe Inn, though my "Companion" is a first edition, and Storrer does alter his numbering system whenever the need arises, so the later edition may have that number reassigned. In Storre...

At 1:58, Wright is looking at a model of one of his designs (with a large poster of the Fallingwater guest house walkway canopy on the wall behind him). Which house does the model portray?

In Fallingwater, A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House (p. 59), Edgar Kaufmann jr. says that Fallingwater was "closed for lack of fuel" during WWII. He doesn't specify how many winters it was closed. He served 3 years during the war. In Building With Frank Lloyd Wright (p. 73), Herbert and Ka...

Apparently his hearing was failing at that stage of his life. So cool to see him sign his full name, and then his initials directly underneath.

What great photos. Can't wait to visit there in March with the Conservancy group.

Here's the link: Taliesin West photos at Arizona Memory Project

Is the new documentary "Romanza, The California Structures Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright," based on the book by the similar name Romanza: The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright by David Gebhard and Scot Zimmerman, or was it done independently? Did Wright coin the term "rom...

We need to get photos of the Rubin tile, front and back.

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Perhaps this is as good a time to ask as any. Would you consider posting or sharing a photo of the Berger tile? It would be nice to be able to compare it to the other tiles with the angled W signature style.