Wright Chat

The name teal blue relates to the color of the feathers on a teal duck, around the eyes. They are not blue-green, but blue-gray. There should be no green in teal, although I think popularly that is what is assumed.

FLW did not specify blue for either Marin or Orthodox; that was Olga and Wes. FLW specified gold, which in those days was all but impossible to do (sans the real stuff) and keep it from fading. Aaron may have had some input also. I think the original blue on Carlson was closer to turquoise. With all...

An example of a FLW homeowner who was insistent upon selling to deserving owners is Maya Moran, who owned Tomek for many years. She spent a great deal of money on restoration, put easements on the art glass, and would not sell to just anyone with a big enough check book, but waited until she found a...

Autumn has even arrived in Southern California. Yesterday, 91. Today, 70. Well, that's our version of autumn, at any rate.

I believe it was Thomas Heinz who visited the Davidson House many years ago and discovered, when the owner took out a pocket knife and dug a small patch of stucco out, that the original color was pale blue. I doubt "baby" blue would be the right hue, more of a pastel teal, but blue neverth...

The price for La Miniatura has fallen again to a new low of $5,950,000, two million below its original price! Submit your bids now! I think the house would have sold by now if my suggestion to the current owner had been followed. The problem with La Min is the way it sidles up to Prospect Crescent s...

The entrance to the house, where you are surrounded on all sides by some of FLW's most spectacular glass, is especially impressive. You will definitely enjoy this house.

It was merely hyperbole. More clearly thought through, I'm sure Wes would have acknowledged the superiority of the Copeland Garage among all of Wright's works.

FLW's daughter Frances' daughter, Nora, by her second husband, Oscar Caroe, was married to Stuart Natof. Their son, born 1965, is Stuart lloyd Natof.

You would search the color spectrum in vain for a tan hue. Tan is a light version of sienna, a mixture of red and yellow of a high brilliance (ie pastel, as in pink) and medium saturation (gray content), so the pinkishness in tan is not surprising.

The Bob Wright House is based on the built design for Louis B. Fredrick (1954) in Barrington Hills, IL (S376) and Wm. Dlesk Project for Manistee, MI. Wright's versions seems to be blown out of proportion, like the overbuilt NM version of the Burlingame Project.

If the blue carpet is the same one that was in FLW's own bedroom for many years, that was a gift from Edgar Tafel during FLW's lifetime. I always thought it was a lurid hue and out of place in Taliesin, but the old man himself accepted it. I also heard that the horrid Olga-version of the Hoffman rug...

SDR, FLW designed a series of projects - none built - which featured that tilted eave line, such as Nelson Gross Project (1956) for Hackensack, NJ, Mono 8, page 238. For Leonard Jankowski (1955) Oakland City, MI, scheme #1, Mono 8, page 190, he did a variation with a double tilt, almost a butterfly ...

The average house uses much more electricity now than at any time in the past, and will continue to increase its consumption the more we rely on digital devices, like refrigerators that keep inventory and ovens that can be controlled by GPS from the far side of the globe on a cell phone. The solutio...

As is so often the case with environmentally friendly houses, design takes a back seat. The Univ of Minnesota house is about the only one that has a distintive look to it. The offset gable is very handsome. The Cornell design demostrates what I said before about silos: The form works best for silos,...