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- Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:42 am
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- Topic: Video: "Frank Lloyd Wright on Japanese architecture"
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Re: Video: "Frank Lloyd Wright on Japanese architecture"
if that is as good as AI can do, we have nothing to worry about.
- Tue Jul 09, 2024 11:41 am
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- Topic: Article: "Fallingwater was architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece"
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- Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:17 am
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- Topic: Wright's cars
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- Views: 639
Re: Wight's cars
Bob Cunningham also appears 'longer and lower.'
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:10 am
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- Topic: Sure, we can call anything "Frank Lloyd Wright"
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Re: Sure, we can call anything "Frank Lloyd Wright"
2004 Dewdney: I usually don't like A-frame houses (a style more suitable for mid-century Lutheran churches) but this one, like others by Schindler, Dow, Mills and Parker, proves it can be well done. 834 Southfield: In the "old days," - late 19th century - when large houses were designed in...
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 10:50 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
- Replies: 89
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Re: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
A pre-salvage photo showed a "cottage cheese" ceiling and wall-to-wall white shag rug.
- Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:20 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
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- Fri Jul 05, 2024 5:56 pm
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- Topic: Book: Car is Architecture - FLW's cars & motorcycle
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Re: Book: Car is Architecture - FLW's cars & motorcycle
I suppose I mentioned this anecdote before, but I shall repeat it: In the 60s Olga bought two Connies. They were both PINK! The color of the license plates (I believe white letters against a blue background) clashed with the pink, so she had an apprentice paint them pink. The Wisconsin DMV did not l...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 10:55 am
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- Topic: Price Tower sells off Shinenkan/Goff artifacts under subterfuge
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Re: Price Tower sells off Shinenkan/Goff artifacts under subterfuge
To paraphrase Samual Goldwyn: "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it's written on."
- Wed Jul 03, 2024 11:33 am
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- Topic: Video: Lodge/Retreat by John Covert Watson - (Spicewood, TX)
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Re: Video: Lodge/Retreat by John Covert Watson - (Spicewood, TX)
Hate the TV hanging over the fireplace.
- Wed Jul 03, 2024 11:28 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
- Replies: 89
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Re: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
It wouldn't be hard (but perhaps very expensive) to hang a ceiling now.
- Tue Jul 02, 2024 11:26 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
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Re: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
The photos resolved one mystery: While the upper floor ceiling height is 7' the lower-level ceiling height is 8', allowing for ducts to hang from them. The 6"-thick floor could not have allowed them.
- Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:40 am
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- Topic: Video: Walter House (Cedar Rock) - (Quasqueton, IA)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 735
Re: Video: Walter House (Cedar Rock) - (Quasqueton, IA)
Walnut? Does anyone know of FLW's use of walnut in any other building?
- Mon Jul 01, 2024 10:28 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
- Replies: 89
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Re: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
... to improve the view of Little Asylum Lake and grab a view of (Big) Asylum Lake beyond,
- Mon Jul 01, 2024 10:20 am
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- Topic: Detroit Conference Sites?
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Re: Detroit Conference Sites?
The Dymaxion House looked futuristic in a "Flintstones" way, but the Monsanto House of the Future in Disneyland's Tomorrowland was less comical.
- Sun Jun 30, 2024 10:15 am
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- Topic: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
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Re: Winn House in Kalmazoo, MI
At 0:45 in the drone video, the house is seen to be perilously close to the cramped development to the SE, even suggesting the lots infringe on 'Winn Acre.'
I always knew Winn was better than its reputation, and even though the real estate photos - as usual - are distorted, I was right.
I always knew Winn was better than its reputation, and even though the real estate photos - as usual - are distorted, I was right.