Wright Chat

Another beautiful Wright gem. Looks like it was just built...

...I like the "donut hole" idea, too.

Tafel's first fireplace is interesting, but I don't know about the second circular "pizza oven"...

SDR wrote:Berger -- not a really tall one, is it ?

SDR- I had just noticed that I said Berger when I meant Walker. I corrected this mistake on the above post. (Fallingwater, Walker, Lamberson, and also Wingspread, being the tallest...)

Walk into Walker and you might never come out alive!



By the way, this house with its big and tall fireplace was designed the same year as Lamberson, (also sporting a supersized woodburner...)

Here's the picture I was thinking of:

http://www.preservationracine.org/image ... 5Large.jpg

I think i just found the tallest of all: Wingspread. Sort of the "Mile High Illinois" of fireplaces. I think Wright intended that entire birch trees could fit vertically into that thing. I'll try to find a photo... Isn't there an even taller one than this at Wingspread? http://img2.photogr...

DRN- The back of the Lamberson fireplace is plumb. We only have plans, no elevations, for the fireplace. But after removing the gas insert, studying the old photo, and carefully observing the firebrick in the opening, we are confident that we will be bringing it back to 1951. The back of the opeing ...

I wonder if the solution to the Lamberson fireplace may be a combination of a more architecturally appropriate raised grate and possibly a chimney top fan to ensure proper draw for a shallow firebox hood? This is exactly what we will try first: Build the grate which Wright designed, and install an ...

Lustig was a great furniture designer. Here we see the influence of Eero Saarinen in one of the most elegant midcentury modern chairs: http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=C4569898AE51B8D4F15F76FBFD564890 But notice the date of 1950! Pierre Paulin designed his similar (but much mo...

I'll photograph the plan and show it a bit later...

The giant masonry core of the house will store and slowly radiate heat from the fireplace. Notice that Wright did not place the fireplace on an outer wall of the house, like the typical suburban tract house, but at the center next to the kitchen and utility rooms, both of which also supply heat to t...

My toes are all quite intact, thank you. After all, it was none of us who designed the Lamberson fireplace, and Mr. Wright signed off on the final set of plans... Here is the Lamberson fireplace as it stands now. Stafford removed the gas insert (sorry Jeff! do you want another one?...) and an added ...

From p 231 of Besinger's "Working with Mr Wright. "I was quite pleased with the design of the seating unit. It made very economical use of the plywood. A truckload of plywood was taken to the mill where the pieces were cut out and a truckload of pieces was hauled away. The only waste was ...

Exactly!

Is it possible that with the gradual transition from Prairie Style fireplaces complete with inglenook to the more informal, "primitive", and perhaps even "primordial" Usonian fireplace, that the inglenook seating would be too close to the fire with the raging heat generated, and ...