Wright Chat

Roderick- Very important to know, thanks...another sad similarity to Pope. I can't help but think the animal abstraction does relate to the children. Yet there were other Usonian families with children (and children who visited Wright) and the perfs lack that visual idea. I appreciate that you notic...

Joy, energy to relax and comfort to you and your wife in front of the fire...

CEP- thank you! Your photo perfectly illustrates the answers Roderick gave us. The layer of plastic sheet confirms that the perfs aren't perf sandwiches and were meant to serve as a screen from the morning sun- without the opening windows from the plan. The vista to the paddock, or elsewhere simply ...

Does anyone know if the hassocks in one of the photos are original (I suspect so the new addition doesn't look amenable to hassock living) to Taliesin design?

A book is being written now about the financial life of Wright. I expect this information will illuminate the issue of these houses. Just how lean were the years after Europe and before the California mansions?

I had some unexpected time so I've checked the widths of these stairs: L. Lewis; 4' (you'd call it an interior entry stair, wouldn't you) Mossberg (suspended) 33" Boulter: ? Glore: ? Levin: looks wider on Storrer than the grid unit of 4' Carlson: 2" Is this suspended? risers? Marden: 8&quo...

Usonians with upper levels need stairs and the nature of that entity - physical and psychological- contributes significantly to the experience of the building. Penfield I; Glore and Boulter have suspended stairs. Are there other houses with these stairs. Penfield I has no risers, Boulter does. Glore...

It said 1955! thanks, David Thanks, PrairieMod

I will not write my book without an Index!

I did not find it in the Wright: 1943-59. Is the Berden Cottage another design- like the 1942 Miller House in Fremont, Ohio- when the initial (and original) drawings were sent to the client before duplication? This may mean that these aren't working building drawings. To add to DRN's questions: How ...

No, sadly, rich Americans had no corner on financial dealings with the Nazi regime. But no Quizling ever wanted my father's vote.

It does not take long to restore all the houses of the richest one percent of Americans. We have the time but they have the money. M Holubar

Although the jail records show that Wright was held for a crime, they don't prove he would have been arrested in 2010. In 1926, some of the popular crimes recorded in the police registers were horse stealing, highway robbery, being insane and keeping a house of ill fame. an understatement, to parap...

for the first four years, no matter where were, someone stuck their head out of another car to ask "Is that one of the hybrids?" So some people could see the 6 inch name plate on the truck lid. The other reason we bought a Prius over the Insight was the interior size. My father, whose arti...

Mark your calendars and, if you can commute to us, join the study group that will prepare for the in-depth tours Here's the Press Release: Call for Volunteer Tour Guides of Frank Lloyd Wright Houses, Cleveland Out and About April 9, 2011 Three magnificent privately owned Frank Lloyd Wright homes wil...

the empty carcass an historic landmark to Greed and Hypocrisy