Wright Chat

from the website of: Bayer Landscape Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright's Edward E. Boynton House Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 6:35PM Bayer Landscape Architecture is currently working on the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Edward E. Boynton House, located in the East Avenue Preservation District i...

There is also a Hillmer for sale in Napa CA, 1111 Hilton Avenue, if you Google it.

I happened by Ennis one time when they were shooting a feature film. I walked in past the guard with my (good) camera around my neck, and had the run of the place as long as I wanted. So much for security. I have seen Walker (lawn furniture) and Reisley (custom carpet?) in print ads but can't recall...

I saw a provocative documentary film last year: "In a time when women architects could find little work, Frank Lloyd Wright's studio was an exception. The film 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, subtitled "A Girl is a Fellow Here," explores the history of the ov...

I have some new restoration progress snapshots of Boynton taken from the public right of way. Can someone tell me (in detail) how to upload them? Or better yet, can I email them to someone who can upload them. The restoration architect is John Bero of Rochester NY and from the exterior it appears th...

The Buehler house was itself severely damaged by a November 1994 fire, started by an electric space heater in the dressing room. The house was subsequently restored/rebuilt by the Buehlers and former apprentice Walter Olds, who was the original supervising apprentice. Walter Olds and Maynard Buehler...

RE: previously posted V.C. Morris being referred to as "Circle Gallery" in Storer. Circle Gallery was the tourist-art commercial venture that happened to occupy the building when Storer published his book. RE: previously posted "Seacliff' for V. C. Morris house: Seacliff is the name o...

Gill quotes Wright as referring to Ennis as 'the Glendower opus', being located on Glendower Drive, when discussing it with the Nesbitts.

If you google "176 Palo Alto" and go to the Craig Ackerman realtor entry there is a wonderful Charles Warren Callister house. It sold for $1.9m (a veritable bargain in SF) but the photos are still posted.

RE: Kraus. The interior is nicely documented in B + W photos in "Frank Lloyd Wright Selected Houses 7". 1991. A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo. I have not been in it myself but I can believe it is dark, as are many of the Usonians with wood ceilings, wood walls, and dark concrete floors, especially as ...

Ah yes Mr. Harding. I hear Beethoven when I am in a Wright building.

Hollyhock Restoration (“Project Restore�) To Being by End of Year By Kathy McDonald, Ledger Contributing Writer Hollyhock House-NOv 2010-LFL-Web ONly EAST HOLLYWOOD—By the end of the year, a long-planned restoration of Hollyhock House should get underway. A public/private partnership, “Proje...

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Thank you for your up to date photos and comments. The best published US source (photos and text) I have seen on this house is the August 1993 issue of Architectural Digest. It says the house was restored in the mid-1980s and opened t the public. It also says it was designed in 1918 by FLlW and comp...

Ahha. what the Video shows is that the Eastmans are moving to the Coach House. Hurrah. Win win.