Wright Chat

The Bradenton house seems to owe more to Jones than to Wright---which in any event isn't a bad thing ?

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I have written before that it is difficult to speak meaningfully about the visual arts. But the speaker (or writer) must have a grasp of his subject to have a hope of describing accurately--or indeed contributing anything of substance about--the artwork in question. The problem has no doubt worsened...

The video shows us three images is succession . . . http://sdrdesign.com/popeOrientation1.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/popeOrientation2.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/popeOrientation3.jpg . . . while the narrator says, "[The house] was designed to face south [not indicating what "face" means&qu...

Further: We also learn that the Pope house was radically reoriented in both of its relocations. And we have two views of the house from the same angle, showing (if I'm not mistaken) different trees in the background. Neither of the locations of these two photos is clearly stated; I am also unaware o...

That's an interesting presentation. Among other things, it includes at least one photo of Jacobs I that I've never seen---one of the very early photos of the house, when the fresh redwood battens were at their starkest contrast to the pale pine planks. In this photo the last of the construction---cl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automot ... ch-planet/

https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Wr ... =1;size=24

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Maybe so. The Guggenheim and perhaps other Wright buildings have multiple materials colored the same. But in rigorous design terms, materials should be presented as corresponding to their individual natures---Wright's customary practice ?

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Undated Richard Guy Wilson photo of that bedroom: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/UVA_FISKE_106711115159;prevRouteTS=1660150093899 At least three elevation sheets are found at Artstor; of those only one shows openings in the bedroom end wall corresponding to what was built. I wish I could read t...

I recently gave in to the inevitable and transferred my photos from iPhoto to Photos, the newer app on the Mackintosh. It is as bad as I feared (and have read)---or worse. Some photos in my regrettable spread of libraries (why do I suddenly have nine ?) are no longer findable; exporting photos to my...

Although it is unnecessarily complex and heavy-looking, the gate does have the advantage of being coordinated with the block coursing on either side.

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It's a pleasure. I like to see recreations of unbuilt Wright designs---the closest we're likely to come, to knowing what these exteriors and interiors might have looked (and felt) like. Keep up the good work !

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Thanks, for that, Stafford. I'm just now getting around to appreciating that Columbia Forest Products Grading Guide. I haven't seen a more useful new source of information on wood. I have found quarter-cut redwood veneers at GL Veneer and at Certainly Wood. These veneers have no figure to speak of, ...

There isn't much that unites the two houses beyond the remarkable series of data points on the plan drawings; the material palette. the proportions, and the interior volumes (as you suggest) all vary considerably. One wonders how Mr Wright (or, with his blessing, someone else, like studio head draft...

Versions of that downward-facing batten---no longer able to be called "sunk," I suppose, though engaging the boards somewhat as the original batten design does---are found repeatedly in the early 'fifties. The Mathews house and its mirror twin, Richard Smith, have such battens. The same sh...

One thing they've learned, unfortunately, is that they can make rooms appear larger (or more expansive) by stretching the image horizontally; wide-angle lenses can do this automatically, when the image format is "landscape" (horizontal rectangle), which is the default format. Thus, blame f...