Wright Chat

SDR--what's your speculation for the way the print is installed into the frame? Does the print slide in from an opening at the top?

I don't know about the glass, but you are right about the rest of it. The print is placed in the open space at the top of the structure. That's the "frame." The horizontal shelves at the bottom are for a plant, or small vase, or some decorative object. In that way, Wright's stand mimics in...

Hehe. This is one of my favorites.

I've only experienced one of Hadid's buildings in person--a design center in Seoul. The exterior was breathtaking. Beautiful forms, sculptural curves. The building indeed seemed to grow out of the ground. The interior, however, was cold, empty, an afterthought. There was almost no logic to the organ...

One interior photo of Santella Court here. Brace for disappointment.

http://www.trulia.com/property/31703895 ... s-CA-95032

Flagstone floors will soon teach anyone over 40 to wear slippers, or add lots of area rugs. They are unforgiving on one's joints.

There's the great Penfield anecdote. I'm Paraphrasing--but Mr. Penfield, a tall man, wrote to Wright to ask if the architect could design a house for man of his height. Wright wrote back, saying that they would need to find a machine to turn the client sideways first, but then things should work out...

Our jalousies likewise have storm windows on the inside that we never remove, for that security reason. Still, the jalousies leak like a sieve. The single pane storm window is little defense against the midwest cold, and the small panes might as well be a screen. We hope to replace them some day . ....

Very handsome. Why, in the name of all that is good and right, did someone apply white paint to the area around the fireplace brick?

Two anecdotes come to mine. I don't have the sources in front of me, so I'm going by memory. Fay Jones: Anecdote about Wright visiting Jones' home, walking around the outside, and saying, "I like to do it like this" (using his cane to gesture a horizontal line), "But you like to do it...

Or a genius with a silver tongue to boot.

(Also, another member from the Lou! Welcome!)

Here's a link with 98 photos of the Springfield house. Apart from the stained glass, I am loving this house. I had never heard of this architect. There's nothing wrong with Sprinfield, MO; it's a college town with a cute downtown. The median home price is around 110,000. I suspect that most south ce...

The article's author asserts that Wright designed the murals. Is there evidence for that in the archives?

And am I remembering correctly--are there paintings in the bedrooms as well?

Looking great! Can I ask where you purchased your piano hinges?

via wikipedia:

if you travel to

http://www.moma.org/collection

and search James Bryan Christie house, you can see two really lovely presentation drawings.