Wright Chat

Looks like an interesting building. I would like to see more photos if anyone has any.

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The flip side to "holding down bolts". We are just finishing some houses in Washington state where "holding down bolts" are code. These houses were foreclosures and were purchased after the drywall was up. The general contractor who went bust had finished the drywall and had not ...

The interior square feet plus half the square feet of the terrace is about 4000 square feet times $600 per square foot comes to $2,400,000.

That should have been "Fallingwater".

For starters, how many square feet of living space is there at Falling Water?

Red?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/reale ... l?_r=1&hpw

Yes, but you look at the Japanese photo and you see so many elements which Wright incorporated into his design. He just sprinted with it so to speak.

Luv the fireplace!

Looks like dangerous fun.

One must admit that the placement of the dining table is pretty creative.

However, looking at that photo is very disturbing and unsettling.

Is the heater original? At Glore in the living room, there are built-in benches below 13 foot high windows. The original heating there is integrated into the built-in seating; it supplemented the radiant floor heat. There is a 6-7 inch deep wooden slatted grate behind the top of the benches. This al...

Peterm, Are you going to replace the baseboard heater with anything? If it was added after completion, there may be a good reason for the addition of the heater. These houses are notoriously drafty and the heating can be inadequate in spots. If you are just going to eliminate it, you may want to fir...

SDR

Loved the tables (the two next to last photos).

By the way, I must say that I sort of like the Bulova Usonian clock as well as the one they do which was inspired by Wright's Japanese art stand.

You can only take "inspired" so far...