Property of the week: Frank Lloyd Wright’s mushroom-like Sol Friedman House
David
For sale: Sol Friedman House - Pleasantville, NY
I missed this listing last month. Great photos in the new slideshow: many interiors not previously published; irreplaceable original wood surfaces; a wonderful stair -- even a steel beam exposed. Only the bedroom windows are a disappointment . . .
$1.5 M, for a Wright in Westchester: that's a bargain. Thank god for the photos.
SDR
$1.5 M, for a Wright in Westchester: that's a bargain. Thank god for the photos.
SDR
It seems the challenge of canting the sash in this house absorbed the energy in the room, and the actual form of the sash fell victim in the process ? Two prosaic sash, horizontal rectangles in a rectangular opening, with fat bottom, rails -- they aren't very pretty, are they.
See what happened at the Chahroudi cottage: though the board walls, and the fin-like mullions above, are canted outward, the glazing is plumb. At Friedman, the upper window band, treated in a way reminiscent of the long-ago Winslow house,
can't seem to decide what it is, and where it should be located. Recessed, certainly, would be typical ? . . .
See what happened at the Chahroudi cottage: though the board walls, and the fin-like mullions above, are canted outward, the glazing is plumb. At Friedman, the upper window band, treated in a way reminiscent of the long-ago Winslow house,
can't seem to decide what it is, and where it should be located. Recessed, certainly, would be typical ? . . .
