Sure, we can call anything "Frank Lloyd Wright"

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:36 pm

Rod ... now you have us giggling. I mean, with that provenance, someone had better snap that rack up quick, 'cause at 79 bucks it's a steal.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:35 pm

DNA . . . heck, there are photos ! His mother called this one "My Son is Such a Deer."

I believe the occasion was a stag party. He doesn't look too happy about the hole thing . . .

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 12:26 pm

literally "unbelievable"

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:56 pm

"Colonial," "Antique," "Deco," and "Frank Lloyd Wright." Try harder to find four (4) mutually exclusive terms . . . !

SDR

Oak Park Jogger · Post by **Oak Park Jogger** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 2:05 pm

Might as well add "built with pieces of the original manger from Bethlehem."

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:40 am

Vintage 1930s FLW Frank Lloyd Wright Style Steel Adjustible Chair Industrial

David

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:25 am

http://www.designaddict.com/forum/Gener ... ble-Prouve

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:05 am

For once the realtor listing does not call this Wright-inspired, etc., but it obviously is...

realtor listing:
scroll down for the video tour
http://www.soprovich.com/home2288.html

architect:
http://www.brianhemingway.com

nice quote:
"Man is part of nature. So long as he maintains a wholesome contact with the natural world, he will be healthy in mind and body, as will be his culture.

Therefore, let us build houses that restore to man the life-giving, life-enhancing elements of nature. This means an architecture that begins with the nature of the site. Which means taking the first great step toward assuring a worthy architecture - for in the rightness of a house on the land, we sense fitness we call beauty." - Joseph A. Barry

H/T: EricS

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:43 am

Can you say Yow ? Talk about a "great vessel" . . .

What is owed to Wright, here, is the rigorous fidelity to an idea and to the consistent use of material and detail in carrying out that idea. The expression owes more to Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, I guess.

Note HVAC contained within paired rafters; granite (especially a "quiet" variety, for once) is perfectly at home here for kitchen (and bath) counters, amid acres of VG fir and bluestone. The decorative stonework on vertical surfaces seems too timid in texture . . . perhaps. Sensitively furnished and generously photographed. Thanks, Paul.

SDR

egads · Post by **egads** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:54 am

This may be the only example of a flatscreen above a fireplace I have liked (I think it is a particularly poor choice most of the time and should only be done when it is the only choice.

The roof structure is pure Cliff May, no ridge beam and continious skylights.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:20 pm

Indeed, a handsome house, though it seems more like a luxurious country club, a bit too institutional. 'Cool' if not 'cold.' I can imagine it coming with a consierge and 24-hour bartender service at the 19th hole.

"Man is part of nature...." quote is interesting, but a reasonable definition of civilization is the gradual and continuous process of isolating humans from their natural environment. Look at French gardens. James Russell Lowell commented on his friend, Henry David Thoreau, that he was perfectly comfortable living the rugged life as long as he knew he had a box of dry Lucifers in his pocket. Fitting a structure into the contours of a site and planting grass, flowers, bushes and trees in a pretty composition, even one that mimics nature to the extent that it can be maintained, is not necessarily natural. I doubt that humans, the only creatures on earth that foul their own nests, are any longer part of nature, and perhaps should stop thinking along those terms. The naked ape now has a closet full of frocks.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:59 pm

egads wrote:The roof structure is pure Cliff May, no ridge beam and continious skylights.

E. Fay Jones also used ridge skylights.

In a wide house without a lot of windows these bring a lot of light into the interior.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:48 pm

What I particularly enjoy about work like this house -- and much of Fay Jones's as well -- is that the major rooms have exposure on both sides. Wright's Storrer house is another example . . .

SDR

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:15 am

SDR wrote:What I particularly enjoy about work like this house -- and much of Fay Jones's as well -- is that the major rooms have exposure on both sides. Wright's Storrer house is another example . . .SDR

This a major difference from Wright's Usonians which usually had a solid wall to the street and a window wall to the back yard. This caused them to be a bit darker on the interior.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:22 am

Yes. But the typical Usonian at least had a row of small windows, often near the ceiling, on the side of the main space opposite the window wall. Most conventional homes have no such exposure at all. One thinks of the rooms in an English castle or manor house. Only the chapel, church, or cathedral would be provided with a symmetrical array of glass . . . ?

SDR