Wright Chat

Considering that Mr. Wright built a similar fireplace seat at Taliesin I only a couple of years later, a seat that was a bit lower in overall height than the Robie version, and which has a "pier" at the end which is so much less intrusive ... might he have learned from the Robie experience...

Ah, so!

Pardon me, but is that a mirror on the back wall of the living room fireplace?

I'm pretty sure I've never seen or heard of the Thaxton house before. The Thaxton House plan was derived from the unbuilt Bush House for Palo Alto from 1950. The same basic plan "idea" was later employed for the Clark Arnold House (Columbus, WI-1954). All three designs varied the typical ...

What a peculiar list ... Massaro is almost an abomination, while the Gordon House is just a redoing of the Schwartz House.

Except for a "hunch", I have nothing to base my opinion about the origins of the Johnson Wax fenestration ... but the first time I saw photos of the building I assumed the idea of using pyrex tubes originated when Mr. Wright must have observed Johnson Wax chemists at work in their research...

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This thread is new to me, too, but I find it extremely fascinating. I must say, it's good to learn that the fireplace seat will be rebuilt. I've only been in the Robie House once ... and that was way back in the early 60's. However, I well remember my disappointment at finding the entry sequence to ...

I'd suggest you contact Architect Bill Mims. For a small fee perhaps he might take a look at the house for you. I believe his office is just east of Nashville, but see: http://www.mimsarchitect.com/mahistory.htm Bill supervised construction of Wright's Lykes House in Phoenix back in the mid-60's, an...

I wonder if the smaller Bendheim version was closer to the intent of the Burlingham original design? I took a picture of Bendheim from the street... I'll try to dredge it up. Out of curiosity, I visited the Bendheim House several years after it was constructed ... but from the driveway, only, as I ...

For some years during my time, John Amarantides was in charge of floral arrangements in the Taliesin Living Room, which were usually completed on Saturday afternoon. One of the great joys in joining the Fellowship for cocktails on Saturday night (held always in the Blue Loggia), was first going into...

I should have explained ... that I only came upon this thread a few days ago ... and read all 16 pages at one time. On page two SDR likens the plan of the Anderegg house to the Loveness House ... and I merely pointed out that the genesis for both plans is found in Mr. Wright's design of the Hause ho...

The Usonian House is undoubtedly the Faculty House featured in Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1937-1941... plates 165-166. The plan is a slight variation of the more commonly known Hause house project from the 1940 Usonia housing development for Lansing, Michigan ... the same design which, over the y...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:59 pm Post subject: Reply with quote So would her heirs (and FLW's) continue to receive funds from the foundation? Not being party to anyone's will, I can't say what is due or not due, but this I do know: Mrs. Wright sold much of what few things Mr. Wright left her, pe...

Have the original plans ever been published? Not to my knowledge. Could you post some of them? No. I don't have access to them. The fact that they changed is not proof that Wright changed them. True, but if he didn't who did? I briefly saw what I took to be the original drawings at Taliesin West dur...