Video: Laurent House

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:25 am

Frank Lloyd Wright - Laurent House - Rockford, IL - [2:00]

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KevinW · Post by **KevinW** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:53 pm

Brass finish swing arm Von nessen lamps work perfectly in a Wright house. Aaron turned me on to Nessen lamps, I found a nice old pair on Ebay several years ago, but new ones are very pricey, and vintage ones are getting hard to find, and pricey when you do.
What a gorgeous house!!!

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:58 pm

Agreed...

The others which showed up in many Usonians were the metal Cherokee red and brass lamps. I think they might have been Nessen as well. Here is one from the Walters house:

http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/1036.mobi.htm

Click on the photo to enlarge... Does anyone know more about these?

Unbrook · Post by **Unbrook** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:09 am

Stanley Wolf, who joined the Nessen Studios in the early 1950's, designed the floor lamp which was used in the house built on the site of the Guggenheim in NYC as a part of the "Sixty Years" retrospective in 1955. I have always considered it the quintessential Usonian lamp.

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:26 am

Unbrook- Is this the lamp which you are referring to, except in brass? Probably not, this says designed by Nessen...

http://www.nessenlighting.com/product_d ... mber=NF907

I am finding references to the lamp which you mention, but no images...

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:11 pm

I don't see any floorlamp of any design in the photos of the Exhibition House in "The Natural House."

victoriad · Post by **victoriad** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:08 pm

Floor lamps in the Usonian Exhibition House are pictured on pp. 158-159 of Lost Wright by Carla Lind.

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:07 pm

Darn, my copy is in Iowa...

egads · Post by **egads** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:47 pm

Back to the film, that is one of the better little tour docs I remember seeing. (and we get linked to a lot of them around here) I like the height of the camera, the music much better than many & the focus really shows details. I leave it feeling a lot like I was there.

Unbrook · Post by **Unbrook** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:05 pm

My understanding is that the lamp was not a swing arm lamp, but rather just a straight vertical shaft ending in a round straight sided shade.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:29 pm

Correct, Unbrook, except the shades are not straight sided, there's a slight slope to the very shallow shade.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:21 pm

I was able to visit the Laurent House on their opening weekend. This one-owner house is in terrific shape. It almost feels like you are walking into a sixty year old time capsule from just after the house was completed.

I would urge you to make a side trip and take in this house as part of your travels. They are open the first and last weekends of the month.

4-stars!

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:52 am

article from Northwest Quarterly:
http://oldnorthwestterritory.northwestq ... -a-genius/

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