Wright Chat

peter m No, I don't make ceramics any more. "Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and Bernard Pyron were guests at dinner in the Frank Lloyd Wright Don Loveness House near. Stillwater, Minnesota in June of 1958." We drove into eastern Minnesota late that afternoon after leaving Madison in Wisconsin ear...

I found this post from Feb 1, 2011 on the story of the Ward Willitts dining room table: outside in Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 501 "PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Roderick, I'm afraid that the owner was not offered a chance to buy the table for $15,000. Milt ...

Wrighter in St Louis I would post the photo of Wright I took in the summer of 1957 when he was giving a talk at the Spring Green High School. But I don't know how to post it. I see a button marked "Image." But there must be a way to load a photo before hitting "Image." But i don'...

David Thanks for giving me the link to your photos of the Kinney house. In your photo No 87, looking south at the house from the north, what happened to the carport that was east off the main hexagonal part of the house? The house looks to be in good shape. My wife and I were at the Kinney house lat...

Roderick Grant Thanks for pointing out the square module Thaxton house addition. I looked at the photos you listed that my son took. It looks like the addition to the Thaxton house makes it too large for photos without an extreme wide angle lens to show the difference between the square module addit...

In 1961 when I got the Ward Willitts house furniture this stuff was not valued by the art museums or the collectors. Only a few people were seriously interested in Wright and in his work then. I sold the first high back dining room chair in 1978 to the St Louis Art Museum because I needed the money....

The William L. Thaxton house is based on 120 and 60 degree angles, Wright's diamond module system. Some exterior photos of the house, however, suggest it is based on a square module system. See Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006. It is Storrer...

A few days ago I became interested in seeing if I could find out where the Ward Willitts house dining room table is now by searching Google. I acquired it and several high back Willitts chairs in 1961 when I was selling pottery at a Highland Park, Illinois art fair. I found only what I already knew ...