Wright Chat

Certainly a delight to be lacking in flying bugs! My snakes and frog keep us virtually free of mosquitoes but flies, which seem to appear the moment your dog releases their bowels, are disgusting. The Glenbrow Tower ('64 Ted van Fossen) has a closet on the roof terrace with a rusted Murphy bed sprin...

Thanks HOJO. Now I can see a faint demarcation in the ceiling that is probably a hatch to the roof. Leave it to Schindler to make a mundane object beautiful! So all you west coasters, are there no insects/animals out west? I recall a sleeping porch at the Greene and Greene Gamble House in Pasadena a...

Do you know what the yellow structure is (under gallery, third photo down from the center row)? Joe thought it might be a structure to conceal a light.

It somewhat reminds me of the Schindler light structure in this photograph that we previously discussed: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrN21w2gb2Z/

Stunning! There are more photographs here under gallery: https://www.manolacourt.com

We installed a 74,000 Laars system into our 2,200 sq ft house but this is not a DYI project. It was by far our largest expense. My husband is very handy in almost all trades but would really advice a licensed plumber trained in hydronic system installation.

https://www.laars.com

If any of you are on twitter, Blair Kamin (architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune) is attempting to locate the owners:

https://twitter.com/BlairKamin/status/1 ... 2365671425

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ ... story.html

One house that will NEVER be on this list is the "McMansion" owned by the CEO of DWR! I would have expected an architectural gem by Neutra or Lautner but instead here it is:

https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-i ... icut-home/

I went to this lecture which was a history of Fallingwater and FLW. Lynda Waggoner is now working with Iconic Houses organization: https://www.iconichouses.org/about 20th century architect's houses and modern house museums form a unique category of sites open to the public. Whereas the buildings are...

I was informed that this house is about to go on the market, when it does I will post a link- additional photographs might reveal some answers. For those interested in reading more about Tony Smith's influences besides Wright, the MOMA catalogue, "Tony Smith: Architect-Painter-Sculptor" is...

SDR, I found the answer to where the spiral staircase goes to in the Home & Garden article you reference above (just getting around to reading it) In the first paragraph the author states: "Directly under the kitchen the room for the GE furnace is reached by a spiral staircase in a hexagona...

I can send an email and ask for possible clarification (which assumes someone can answer this). I thought the '44 plan might indicate a stairwell as a hexagon to the right of the 2 vehicles. My daughter thinks it might be an early concept that differs from the "as built". I'll see if I can...

SDR, Thanks for producing a readable image! Only a guess: it appears to be one floor but seeing that the stairwell on the Site Plan image appears to go downstairs, maybe to the carport (you see 2 vehicles on the site plan) or possibly the basement access to gravity heat, but why wouldn't their be a ...

Somewhere on a thread discussing Tony Smith was a question about Tony's other built architecture besides Glenbrow. I don't have the time to research who asked so I thought I would post a link to The Tony Smith Estate's new website which breaks down his work as Sculpture/Painting/Architecture and Dra...

Fallingwater: An Icon of The Modern Movement Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, arguably the most famous house of the modern era, will be the subject of a lecture presentation by the museum’s former director, Lynda Waggoner. Join us to hear the story of how in the midst of the Great De...

I was extremely disappointed in not finding a supplier when we were ready for the plywood but had gotten to a point that we needed to find a supplier so we could finish and move in. When we had folks from Tony Smith's estate visit the house and explained our choice of birch, we were told -"that...