Wright Chat

Roderick Grant wrote:Wingspread is as close to House on the Mesa as any built structure.

Doesn't the Harold Price Sr. "Grandma House" fit into this dialogue, also?

Don

Are they going to finish it or just leave it like that?

To favorably compare it to the Eiffel Tower is simply laughable.

Its too bad that the joinery is do difficult (never mind the dimensions). I would really like to make a pair of them. As if I needed another project...lol.

I agree, Paul. I was amazed when I sat in one at TW. The most astounding part was how comfortably the armrest accomodated your lower arm. The chair seemed to be just right for my height (5'10").
Quite nice, I thought.

I would venture to add Alden Dow to that esteemed roster.

What really remarkable work. Just beautiful!
I notice that the house in the cover photo has "fan joists", a well-known trademark of William Wurster.

Clearly, she is unbelievably ignorant. Why is it so difficult for some to see the forest? But, what about her editors, what were they thinking?
In Phoenix, of all places.
Is there some kind of general antipathy for Wright in Phoenix?

Schlage hardware was actually made in the Bay area, in SSF as I recall.
Our house at Northstar (1980's) has all Schlage hardware, oil rubbed bronze. Schlage was the standard of quality for the west in those days.

Two possibilities: Pietro Belluschi's Equitable Building (it actually predates the Lever House) and Michael Graves' Portland Building. Two building that evoked change at different times for different reasons. Is it a coincidence that they are both in Portland (along with Halprin's Lovejoy Fountain P...

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles (Jose Rafael Moneo, architect) has some 27,000 s.f. of alabaster glazing. It is dual glazed with an outer layer of glass to protect the alabaster. The alabaster is 1.5 cm. thick. The quality of light is stunning. Just thought I would mention it ...

" A life well lived".

I first heard the phrase many years ago in a eulogy for a close friend.
It has always struck me as the highest possible praise.

Don

I think you are right about there not needing to be a mold. Which makes Olgivanna's order (if there ever was such an event)even less significant. Perhaps that is simply another apocryphal storyl. BTW, last night I looked at a photo that I have of the Fawcett tile that I took about two years ago. The...

Good advice, egads!
It is too easy for the unfamiliar, myself included, to spend half of the day (even the whole day...lol) just "running around" in Los Angeles.

Don

If Jean Haber made the tiles, presumably she had the mold. So, how could Olgivanna "order" it destroyed? Just trying to follow the chain of custody.
Fawcett also was built after FLLW's death and it has a tile.

Don

Even though Gamble and Millard are quite close to each other, being on opposite sides of Rosemont Avenue (Gamble is actually on the west side of Prospect Blvd. just before Rosemont branches off to the north) they don't share boundaries. If you come to LA looking for architecture you had better come ...