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hopefully, all gas stations will soon become "museum objects", when we finally come to our senses and find an alternative to the internal combustion engine. at least they could be converted to structures which provide some other services and products instead of the distribution of fossil f...

the Prouve and the auto Palace gas station (Meerman and Pijll) are both so elegant, but then i realized it has to be easier to make a beautiful gas station when there are no hideous pumps or crass signs!

thanks, sdr- well, they might not be identical twins, but first cousins at least. the hughes is clearly more intricate and spacious, but they certainly share dna. peterm, what do you think is the internal (or interior) purpose of the northernmost full-height brick element -- the elongated half-hexag...

peterm, can you please us caps in your posts. Very frustrating....[/quote]

I am sorry, RJH. It was not my intention to frustrate you.

[quote Lots of vulgar additions have been made in place of what was originally there.]

if there is much validity to this letter, it would need to address exactly what these vulgar additions might be.

This is the only Usonian that I have seen that does not have Cherokee Red concrete floors. They are kind of a dark mustard color. Actually they are about the same color as the magnesite floor in his Oak Park Studio. Are there others with non-standard floor colors. i don't know about other usonians ...

Arghh...so you bought the lamberson house, spoiling my time-share dream. Are you really going to live in Oskaloosa? Deke i will try to spend some of my time there, it's actually a nice sort of "music man" small iowa town complete with the gazebo band stand positioned dead center of the to...

the fawcett residence 1961 frank lloyd wright in banos california


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does anyone have any photos of the j. willis hughes house, also called "fountainhead"? storrer describes the lamberson house, which i recently purchased, as the "smaller twin" of the hughes house, which also incorporates the square grid meeting 30 60 120 angles. i am trying to pu...

the notion of "what's around the corner" is what great architecture is about: the choreography, dynamic movement. many works of architecture make good photo stills, but when kaufmann thinks in these terms, it is clear, as you said, that he has experienced the best architecture first hand.

beautiful photos sdr! i have always liked the combination of wright design with aalto furniture as shown in the california obler house. in fact, what is it about aalto furniture that makes it so universal? it seems as if an aalto piece works anywhere. i also find alexendar girard's playfulness refre...

the altered fireplace as it exists now is aesthetically unacceptable. i just looked at the drawings again and realized that there are two drawings for fireplace grates, the first being the elaborate triangular (yes,hanging) version and then a revision from march 1952 for a simpler grate with legs, w...

the drawings for the lamberson house show a beautiful and elaborate geometric elevated grate design, which i don't think was ever built. the old photo of the living room with it's original fireplace, probably from the mid fifties, shows a cruder table grate to elevate the logs. it would be nice to f...

the sash seems to be in good condition. inside natural redwood (quite dark by now) exterior is cherokee red and could use a little paint. seller says he will give me the original sherwin williams formula. the eaves are thin (1/4"?) overlapped redwood plywood the same as the interior ceiling. th...

sdr "There is no original furniture remaining ?"


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