What Happened To the Ward Willitts House Dining Room Table?
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bernardpyron
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Dinner At the Don Loveness House 1958
peter m
No, I don't make ceramics any more.
"Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and Bernard Pyron were guests at dinner in the Frank Lloyd Wright Don Loveness House near. Stillwater, Minnesota in June of 1958." We drove into eastern Minnesota late that afternoon after leaving Madison in Wisconsin earlier that day. The Don Loveness house was out in the country a bit, and we pulled up not far from the house and Don Loveness came out to talk to us - three University of Wisconsin students. After a while he was convinced we were what we said we were - Wright hunters - and invited us into the house. We spent the night there and ate with them.
In the photo of all of us in the Loveness house, around the table from front left is Don Loveness, their two young daughters at the head of the table, and on the right side is Bruce Radde, then Gail Pyron and finally Bernard Pyron.
Bruce Radde got his list of Wright buildings published in the 1960 book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings, edited by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn.
Radde's list was derived from the book, In the Nature of Materials, by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 1942 and a list of Wright's work since 1950 I put together, beginning with a list I got from the Burnham Library of Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago, and from hanging around Taliesin and Hillside and talking with Wright's senior apprentices in 1956-57.
No, I don't make ceramics any more.
"Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and Bernard Pyron were guests at dinner in the Frank Lloyd Wright Don Loveness House near. Stillwater, Minnesota in June of 1958." We drove into eastern Minnesota late that afternoon after leaving Madison in Wisconsin earlier that day. The Don Loveness house was out in the country a bit, and we pulled up not far from the house and Don Loveness came out to talk to us - three University of Wisconsin students. After a while he was convinced we were what we said we were - Wright hunters - and invited us into the house. We spent the night there and ate with them.
In the photo of all of us in the Loveness house, around the table from front left is Don Loveness, their two young daughters at the head of the table, and on the right side is Bruce Radde, then Gail Pyron and finally Bernard Pyron.
Bruce Radde got his list of Wright buildings published in the 1960 book, Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings, edited by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn.
Radde's list was derived from the book, In the Nature of Materials, by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 1942 and a list of Wright's work since 1950 I put together, beginning with a list I got from the Burnham Library of Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago, and from hanging around Taliesin and Hillside and talking with Wright's senior apprentices in 1956-57.
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Roderick Grant
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Wrighter:
In "Complete Wright - 1943-1959" (p 469) the project is refered to as "New Sports Pavilion" and is numbered as T5616.
(from "Complete Works"):
"Harry Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim's nephew, was the client responsible for the New Sports Pavilion. When Wright published the designs the following year, he wrote a description of the project: "The New Sports Pavilion (for racetrack and other sports) Belmont and Aqueduct, New York. A massive slab, with four levels reached by twelve or sixteen escalators (depending on the size of the stand), covered by a translucent plastic roof, suspended on a lacework of slender tensile steel cables. There will be no pillars of any kind, affording total visibility for 65,000 or 80,000 people. Parking space for from 3,500 to 5,000 cars, again depending on the size of the structure. Two tall towers situated at ends of stands are to be banked with floodlights capable of lighting the entire structure, the illumination pouring through the translucent roof. Water pipes embedded in the floors at various levels will carry hot water to warm the structure in cold weather. All wagering facilities, restaurants, snack bars, and restrooms will be directly under each bank of seats or boxes on four levels with easy access from the seats, arraigned to eliminate long queues. A structure that is organic in character, and this principle can be applied, and ultimately must be, to every human endeavor architecturally." Other features within the structure include a grand dining room, ballroom, garden terrace, bar and coffee shop, spaces for utilities, as well as provisions for staff offices. It was a most complex structure, with all of the amenities worked into many levels of plans beneath the grandstand. However, only a few of the plans were rendered for preliminary studies since the project was abandoned at an early stage of it's development."
David
In "Complete Wright - 1943-1959" (p 469) the project is refered to as "New Sports Pavilion" and is numbered as T5616.
(from "Complete Works"):
"Harry Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim's nephew, was the client responsible for the New Sports Pavilion. When Wright published the designs the following year, he wrote a description of the project: "The New Sports Pavilion (for racetrack and other sports) Belmont and Aqueduct, New York. A massive slab, with four levels reached by twelve or sixteen escalators (depending on the size of the stand), covered by a translucent plastic roof, suspended on a lacework of slender tensile steel cables. There will be no pillars of any kind, affording total visibility for 65,000 or 80,000 people. Parking space for from 3,500 to 5,000 cars, again depending on the size of the structure. Two tall towers situated at ends of stands are to be banked with floodlights capable of lighting the entire structure, the illumination pouring through the translucent roof. Water pipes embedded in the floors at various levels will carry hot water to warm the structure in cold weather. All wagering facilities, restaurants, snack bars, and restrooms will be directly under each bank of seats or boxes on four levels with easy access from the seats, arraigned to eliminate long queues. A structure that is organic in character, and this principle can be applied, and ultimately must be, to every human endeavor architecturally." Other features within the structure include a grand dining room, ballroom, garden terrace, bar and coffee shop, spaces for utilities, as well as provisions for staff offices. It was a most complex structure, with all of the amenities worked into many levels of plans beneath the grandstand. However, only a few of the plans were rendered for preliminary studies since the project was abandoned at an early stage of it's development."
David
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Palli Davis Holubar
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