Wright Chat

How many sq ft is this house?

Are the counter tops Bakelite?

Palli wrote: There is a reason Thorncrown Chapel is stick-built.

It's right next to the highway.

Such a beautiful house, it must be wonderful to live there.

Mr Wright's grandson views "site built houses as crazy…wasteful and expensive. Doesn't make sense." I wonder how Mr Wright would feel about this comment. The inside of his prefab is quite mundane and uninspiring, in my opinion. Wasteful? And a 2200 sq ft house that costs almost half a m...

Too bad it couldn't be moved to a more suitable site.

I hope they moved the electric service when they remodeled.

SREcklund wrote:No fireplace or workspace skylight, but clearly what would normally be a chimney mass ... ?

There is a fireplace, but someone hid it behind a chair.

Pepto Bismol Pink, why god why?

As far as I know this will be the first Wright structure in Arkansas.

But - how do you move a slab-on-grade house?

More of a pastiche than a tribute.

Roderick Grant wrote:I would love to see that '70s fuzzy wall-to-wall carpet eliminated.

It looks like someone vomited a key lime pie.

The plan (Mono 8/31) indicates that the piano was intended to be turned 90 degrees counterclockwise from the position shown, with the keyboard exposed and the long, hinged side parallel to the stone wall, probably for sound projection. Yeah, it's unplayable as photographed. Doesn't look like there'...

I don't like the traffic flow, the way one is forced to walk through the kitchen to get anywhere.

Is that Surf-Glo Red?