eBay: Working drawings for the Dayer House

[DavidC]

Frank Lloyd Wright Plans

From "The Complete Works 1943-1959" p83:

4807
Walter Dayer Music Pavilion and Residence
1946
Near Detroit, Michigan
Project

The second proposal for the Walter Dayer Music studio was to be located in the countryside near Detroit rather than on the downtown site of the first proposal. The distinguishing feature of the work is the butterfly roof, of which Wright wrote, "The butterfly roof I suggested to Frankfurt, Germany, in a brochure published in Frankfurt in 1913 is here adapted to a combination music-studio and cottage living room. The cantilevered roof shelters both - tall windows opening to a garden so terraced that comfortable seating may be had using the studio and living room as a stage. The two rooms may be thrown together by means of a sliding partition." The plan for the studio is drawn on a unit system employing diamond units (or equilateral parallelograms). Two large areas, serving as the stage, are placed in a somewhat hexagonal form, with a fireplace in each, and separated by soundproof removal panels. The entry accesses these two rooms, with steps down into each on either side of a utility room, One large space is the music studio; the other is the living room. the wing stretching out from this general area contains three practice rooms on one side, a workspace, dining table, gallery, master bedroom and bathroom on the other. Some exterior wall are of brick construction, others, as well as the interior partitions, employ the standard Usonian system of boards and battens. A copper roof is planned for the residential and carport wings, composition roofing for the butterfly roof.


David

[Roderick Grant]

"The butterfly roof I suggested to Frankfurt, Germany, in a brochure published in Frankfurt in 1913...."
That brochure would be a valuable bit of ephemora to get your hands on.

[Palli Davis Holubar]

There is a perf unit drawing on one of the sheets. But I can not understand it clearly - too small and perhaps that is a damaged corner. This is a perf I was hoping to find in the Archives.

[Jeff Myers]

Palli 4th from last on the ebay photo, near the glass that is holding the paper. I see it clearly and zoomed in and will be making for you a perf rendering.
Update:
This is a rendering of the perf from what I saw when i zoomed in. I put it at 1'1" high, and 4'0" wide.


Front Elevation


Eye Music



Jeff

[DavidC]

Nice work, Jeff.


David

[Palli Davis Holubar]

YEAH! Jeff, THANK YOU!!! I am going to study this awhile and I may ask you to make some slight alterations. It is an interesting and new iteration of the club shape, isn't it? I suspect the narrow strips between the club and lower bands are proportionally too thin making the perf even in ply too fragile.
Jeff, could you send me an image of your enlargement; I can't get EBay to even enlarge the image as much as it did yesterday.

[Wrighter]

Many thanks, Jeff, for an excellent illustration. I love the shadow view.

Looking at the five horizontal, angled lines, nestled into one another, getting progressively smaller--brings to mind a set of allen wrenches in one of those plastic cases.

[Deke]

Is anyone bidding on these? I'd chip in if I can get a set of copies.

Deke

[PrairieMod]

Does anyone have the Frankfurt brochure? Post images if you can.

[Pat Mahoney]

e -mail me at [email protected] if you have interest in sharing a set.

[Jeff Myers]

Updated:


Eye Music

In a band

[SDR]

The attempt shown above to define the perf design on the Dayer blueprint is incomplete, and should not be taken as representing a Frank Lloyd Wright design. From what I can see there is not enough information visible on the blueprint photo to determine every element accurately or completely -- and thus it is premature to attempt a correct presentation.

Among those portions that are visible, the downward-pointing triangle at the left is not represented accurately; the point should align with the bottom of the adjacent figure to its left. This evidence casts into question the accuracy of any other portion of the representation -- as I see it.

Perhaps the owner will make available a more coherent photo of the relevant portion of the blueprint, so that a correct representation of the perf design can be presented here.

SDR

[Roderick Grant]

Unless y'all can get a much clearer view of the blueprint than I can, I have to agree with SDR; it's too indistinct to conclude what the perf looks like. That largest triangular figure on the left goes all the way to the bottom of the cutouts, and in the top of the design there seems to be a triangular dip, so that the end part reads more like a trapazoid than a triangle. But, as I said, my image of the blueprint is not very clear.

[DavidC]

Is anyone bidding on these? I'd chip in if I can get a set of copies.

Deke

Did a group of Wright Chatters end up with the winning bid on the blueprints?



David

[Deke]

Not me. What did it go for?

Deke