Wright Chat

Trellis may not be the right term: Has anyone ever seen greenery growing on these pierced overhangs -- even in the renderings? See page 59 (click on the arrows) of Treasures of Taliesin: seventy-seven unbuilt designs. http://books.google.com/books?id=L2BMt1fCo5kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Trea...

Included within the 400-lot Bonhams & Butterfields Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 14, 2010 is a massive archive of photographs, correspondence and select building plans related to groundbreaking architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright. Assembled by Professor Henry Russell Hit...

Why would Price Tower make the list instead of Fallingwater? http://www.archfoundation.org/octagon/exhibitions/structures/index.htm #4 Taliesin West Paradise Valley, Arizona Frank Lloyd Wright 1973 Award Recipient #5 Johnson and Son Administration Building Racine, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright 1974 A...

VanderKloot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoraygu ... 514803237/

Walser:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoraygu ... 6856/show/

Ross:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoraygu ... 517014317/

"I became interested in the park as a unique heritage landscape and because of the Sullivan building," he says in a press release released by Coun. Clive Doucet's office. "Frank Sullivan, the architect of the Horticultural Building, was the only Canadian student of Frank Lloyd Wright ...

Does anyone have the plans with the reflecting pool? He has accomplished much, but he isn't finished. He needs to add a new roof or modify the present one and would like to restore a reflecting pool on the east side of the house. Meanwhile, he continues the gardening he enjoys. LaBrecque was ecstati...

painted the Honduras mahogany!

Unfortunately, the photo is the architectural equivalent of a class picture with the eyes closed on a bad hair day DRN, Bill Storrer agrees with you that a better picture could've been used. See: http://www.franklloydwrightinfo.com/FLlW4359.htm S.325 Sweeton; I'd be insulted if my home were shown a...

See:
http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/gree ... 301604.htm

Got mine from Amazon today. It sure is heavy. Sweet pictures.

Neat:

http://www.colorcaps.com/ColorCapsPopeLeigheyDemo.htm

Very interesting:

http://klingonska.org/piqadpic.html

The checkerboard was probably derived from the end flaps of the Taliesin West office, drafting room and living room. They were rectangular canvas flaps and checker-boarded with gold paint". See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoraygun/2883638394/in/set-72157607455192592/ http://www.flickr.com...

Restoration of the Robie House dining room has undergone significant advancements as the three major reproduction cabinetry pieces, the buffet, screen wall and built-in shelving, will all soon be restored in their original locations. As a precursor to reinstalling the dining room built-ins, the Robi...

Would you take some pictures of the perfs (all variations if possible) straight on nothing artistic for research purposes? Assuming they let you take pictures of course.