Wright Chat

Paul, I disagree with your point of view. It is just as likely for registered posters to be rude, stupid and boring, and for guests to have something of interest to share. Knowing who's who does nothing to raise the bar. This modest change will only bring this board up to industry standards for cha...

Speaking as an owner of a Wright house, I like the option of being able to participate in this very public forum while protecting my privacy. (If anyone is truly interested in a particular house, there are ways to identify and contact the owners - who are generally more than happy to talk about the...

This is the only message board of which I am aware that permits anonymous posts by visitors. This board will be more meaningful and intersting if each poster is registered and lists a location.

Storrer is inconsistent on this issue in my opinion. I have been in both Ennis and Amberg. I do not see how you can count one and not the other. When Wright was the Architect of Record that is good enough for me. No architect is intimately involved with every project to the same degree. That is evid...

Paul- Just as an FYI, you can also see an original wall finish (encaustic) in another FLW Prairie house if you visit the newly restored and very beautiful Burton J. Westcott house in Springfield, Ohio. In the playroom, several of the walls have been very faithfully and accurately restored, but one ...

Just curious if the purists or Paul Harding approve of the Sikkens approach? This seems to be alot easier, but not sure if it yellows the mahogany. I recommend that you follow Rgrants recommendation above to contact an expert on finishes. I am not an expert, but I will share my comments for what th...

The above was posted by me. I inadvertently did not log in. Sorry.

It is great to see that the house was restored. I admire the owner's entrepreneurial spirit to finance the house and its restoration.

Jason: Ignore the critics. You should keep the flwforum.com going. Good luck.

Maybe part of the sale of the blueprints can be donated towards the operation to remove the stick up pharding's butt. The above post is contrary to the posted guidelines for this forum. It is also an example why message boards in general do not permit anonymous posts. I suggest that this board cont...

This is an absolutely stunning book with beautiful photographs. This a big heavy book that should not be purchased at Amazon.com. My first copy was badly beat up in transit due to its heft and Amazon.com's inept packaging. The second one with better packaging after I complained was still suffering f...

The Davenport House uses the following proportions repeatedly. Unity Temple does the same. 1. Square . It all starts here. 1:1 2. Golden Section . 1.6180:1 3. Residual Rectangle created by removing a golden section from a square. 2.62:1 4. Rectangle, Half of a Square . 2:1 5. Rectangle, Third of a S...

Thank you. There should be another forum on this web site where potential inaccuracies could be posted. At least then historians, scholars, architects, and students could be made aware of potential historical inaccuracies so that FLW history could be cleaned up eventually, maybe 20 years from now gi...

What is a good book which would include an analysis of proportional systems used by FLW? Thanks.

The 12 volume monograph that I recently purchased was owned by Lynn Anderson an architect and former Taliesen Apprentice. She annotated in pencil what she understood to be factual errors in the text. The most glaring errors were on Taliesin 1 , pages 138 to 143, Volume 3. The photographs according t...