Avery Coonley Estate

JChoate · Post by **JChoate** » Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:04 pm

Here are those rogue garage infills, as of last May:

When I was walking along curbside, there was a lawncare crew doing their thing. One of them waved me over to show me the enormous mound of water lily detritus he'd just fished out of the fountain/pool. There was some intense fauna going on, as well as some standing water on the terrace closer to the house:

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:32 am

When did Wright copper up the pool side faÃ§ade of the house? Early pictures do not have the trellises and ornamental box beams.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:29 am

Heh. The chairs and tables reveal the scale of the construction. Compare to the illusion of grandeur given by the early photos:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/new ... d514881640

The modification also lowered the terrace (or raised the pool), apparently. Photo to follow.

Sidebar:

http://atlasofinteriors.polimi-cooperat ... t-coonley/

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SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:34 am

photo c/o Pinterest and Curbed Chicago

Mr Wright usually gratifies our fondest desire: the pergola is cantilevered beyond its support posts. The planter urns now seem overscaled ?

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Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:57 pm

A couple of distressing photos that I have seen only in Heinz's 1978 Newsletter shows Coonley just after the fire had gutted the living room. The firefighters are sitting in the utterly ruined room.