Wright Chat

I used to work at the Getty and many times I'd spend may lunch hour looking through the binders of Wright plans (8x10 copies of the photos the Getty had taken of the archive). It was like finding a box of crayons with colors I'd never seen before. They used to let me copy as many items as I wanted, ...

On my Mac, I'm clicking on the image to enter the "sign in" high res mode. Then right click and "save image to downloads." This saves images in the 800 KB to 1.2 MB range. Lots of nice detail. Then just click on the next image of the set and repeat. Some lesser known projects her...

Again...a very poorly promoted auction. I never heard a thing about it.

Did the site change for Sander? the drawing indicates a steep ravine but the photos look like a gentle slope. Sort of negates the intention of the design.

It seems that one maintenance responsibility is the care and feeding of all that wood. It appears that someone may have bleached some rooms a lighter color and that now they've been restored to a darker tone. But overall the before pictures indicate to me wood that hadn't been re-stained or oiled in...

A couple observations: --the marketing for this auction wasn't great as I'd have bid on some items had I known more about the auction --The prices were not what they would have been a decade ago when a set of original drawings would have reached 6 figures easily. --At least the auction didn't divide...

I recall Geiger mentioning he expanded the carport storage shed. It struck me as interesting that there was apparently a level of comfort in making such adjustments on site.

I believe Geiger had a set of drawings as well. Would they be in his archive?

Is this project published in any Wright project list? Make you wonder how many other such projects are floating around.

I was just thinking this would be a good sketchup project.

Got it. Thanks...and thanks for the screen shots of Palmer.

Nice of the auction house to make high res images available. What's the best way to download those images?

That view is the angle of one of the photos that notes the low lying design, but I was struck by how the house is almost entirely on a plinth of brick.

Always liked Ain's work. Is there a book on him? Or has anyone written about the red-scare and it's impact on architects? I'm researching an architect in Seattle who was also caught up in the red scare in the 1950s.

I thought Wright led some sort of march of protestors to save the house. Perhaps an urban myth as I can't see Wright that active physically. Nice to get a close up of the brick. I'd always thought roman brick has a sort of break mark in the middle...at least I assume the rough patch is due to some p...