Wright Chat

I like that Drummond fireplace and his window pattern there. He does have a delicacy. Regarding that Cheney, lovely as it is, I'd kinda like to see some alternate furniture to that billiard table which features in this film and also the bulk of the color images I've seen. I think I'm going to have t...

Some nice footage with appropriate musical accompaniment. https://youtu.be/WAXlWh4afjw Also, Roderick once told me the Cheney house was one of his favorites. At the 35:18 mark begins a nicely filmed sequence of the progression from the street approaching and entering the house. It gives a sense of h...

Bravo Dan. That's a keeper.

It's a grand slam home run. Here's another suggestion -- if you have a portable light fixture you could position it to simulate the direction of light at various times of the day. Study the effects of solar orientation on the forms. In your photos, the light is neutral -- generally diffused and non-...

SDR's comment about those lower level "holes" strikes a chord. I've always sort of wanted them not to be there. Always thought less would be more.
With Jim's wonderful model we can explore the "what if?"

The landscape really is convincing in the model. Look at this foreground! (I've taken the liberty of inserting some sky. (I hope you don't mind)) Consider the vantage point of this view where we see the studio wing of the house emerge from behind the hilltop. You can't help but want to go farther to...

Boy oh boy! what a great thing you've done.
I've looked at lots of T1 floor plans & old photos & other graphic representations, but that suite of photos of your model really conveys what it must've been like.
Well done.

I listened with interest to part of a recording of an interview with FLW, made in 1956. (Recorded by Ben Raeburn, for whom FLW had designed a house in 1937). There were a few notable moments: At the 15:35 mark -- Wright tells a story about resting on a bench at Taliesin right after "a tragedy&q...

Wow. Everything about that is good.

as P Harding states, it is very impressive when you see the rest of the USA's sites, most of which are natural rather than manmade places.
When you look at this map you see that FLW dominates it. Wow !:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_W ... ted_States

This house is a thorough work of art. I'm still processing the fact that it was built in 1934 -- 3 years before the Jacobs house !? I'm inclined to agree with Roderick's desire to tweak the bright white, (maybe entertaining SDR's sand color on the original Guggenheim, and perhaps I'd tweak the Heath...

Thanks for sharing that photo S. It's marvelous. Look at it sitting next to this snapshot I took.

Imagine that.

...and there's this, which makes perfect sense:
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/e897987 ... 4b5cd83e41

here's a link to a story about another surf blue/maize yellow two tone model in the deep south. In fact, it doesn't get much deeper than Natchez, Mississippi which was the epicenter of cotton plantation wealth up until 1865. This article reports at the high water mark there had been at least 4 Lustr...

S I do not remember seeing any of those harlequin-ed VW Golfs. I kind of like them. I would prefer it if the green panels were replaced by white ones and they called it the "VW Mondrian". Your article's story links the presence of the VW Harlequins with the 1996 Olympics. If that's the cas...