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9/13/2005 10:00:00 PM Dean Eastman reportedly buying Coonley Coach House By BOB SKOLNIK A white knight has apparently come to the rescue of the Coonley Coach house. "Dean Eastman has offered to purchase the property and to offer Carolyn Howlett a life estate," said Kathryn Balgley, the att...

A lesson on symmetry from Frank Lloyd Wright Feb. 5, 2005 12:00 AM Early in the spring of 1958 I received a telephone call from Frank Lloyd Wright. He announced that he was in New Canaan, Conn., where I was then living, visiting the house he had designed for Joyce and John Rayward, and he invited me...

When fire gutted Taliesin on August 15, 1914, the entire living quarters of the residence were destroyed. Little documentation of the structure survived the fire, thus Taliesin became one of the most puzzling structures of Wright's career. A photograph album of 33 rare photographs of Taliesin recent...

Anyone have a picture of the pighouse? :shock:

The Japanese aesthetic January 23, 2005 BY DAVE HOEKSTRA Staff Reporter Anyone who has traveled to Japan has come away impressed by the orderly nature of Japanese society. Such symmetry would inspire Frank Lloyd Wright after he first set sail for Japan on Valentine's Day, 1905. Leaving his six child...