Wright Chat

There's a Lustron house around the corner from where I live - a funky pale "surf blue" & "maize yellow" one. Apparently, it belonged to the man who was the local Lustron distributor, who remained in the house until the 1990's. Reportedly, there were 10 in the city, but I've o...

This site has lots of of links to Poirot architecture:

http://www.tvlocations.net/poirotlocationindex.htm

So, from this building we (or at least, I) learn a name I haven't previously known -- the architect Oliver Hill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hill Even though his "Marylands" has the romantic Spanish/Scottish overtones, I see Oliver Hill was quite the streamline Moderne architect i...

SDR, here's your place -- it's called "Marylands" and it's in Ewhurst, Surrey UK https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/image-information/poster/marylands-hurtwood-ewhurst-surrey/posterid/RIBA14351.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/moorish-style-and-movie-glitz-lgvxdcpgc ...

here's a nice link showing some Poirot locations:

http://www.chimni.com/wiki/Homes_Used_I ... t_Episodes

Roderick, coincidentally I watched “Murder, She Said� on Turner Classic Movies last night. The host Ben Mankiewicz told that story about Agatha Christie originally not favoring Rutherford’s casting. But he went on to say that Christie was pleasantly surprised by Rutherford’...

That Poirot series is a treasure trove of great architectural settings, one right after another. A few years ago, my daughter & I enjoyed together watching reruns of that 1980's era series on DVDs I'd inherited from my father. Only then did I realize that the Deco streamline moderne building (Fl...

Here's a poignant photo with mourners beside the coffin before lowering it into the grave.
Wesley Peters looks on.
Seeing him there, I can't help but think about his return in 1985 to undo that grave.
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM45512

Thanks SpringGreen for clarifying the timeline. I just looked at Monograph #11 and see where Pfeiffer also explained it: https://i.imgur.com/cNZD9Py.jpg In Monograph #11, the text above describes the two rooms functioning as "drawing storage and exhibition space". Additionally, there are a...

The AT TALIESIN article announced the naming of the Dana and Roberts Rooms in their article dated July 12, 1934. According to Wikipedia, Roberts had died just a few months earlier in March 1934. Perhaps Wright was touched by his passing, and that immediate timing factored into the naming (?). Also, ...

AT TALIESIN, July l2, l934 Extensive operations at Hillside have added two new studios to the Fellowship's list of accomplishments and they have been named after two of the old Hillside Home School patrons - The Dana Gallery, named for Mrs. Susan Laurence Dana of Springfield, Illinois, who gave to ...

In monograph 5, Futagawa shows the drafting studio looking back toward the passageway. The bright patches of red mark the entrances https://i.imgur.com/xqxQne0.jpg Zoomed in, showing a glimpse of the Dana Gallery signage: https://i.imgur.com/dh6bDY4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FDBz27r.jpg Zoomed in, sho...

Two years ago the C E Roberts house (designed by Daniel Burnham then remodeled by FLW in 1896) was part of Oak Park's Wright Walk tours. I went thru it, and it didn't make much of an impression. I'm only just now connecting the dots ... where I'd seen that name before. When I had toured Hillside at ...

By the way, funky fireplaces like these are tricky at Christmas.
My 3 kids are adults now, but my wife is still compelled to hang their stockings by the chimney with care.

I've got some construction photos of the fireplace where I live (Copeland House by apprentice R Green). They show a steel lintel temporarily support by a screw jack while a mason works his way up the surrounding brick wall. There is a diagonal steel rod in place (but we can't see where it terminates...