Video: Walter House - Quasqueton, IA

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:36 am

Frank Lloyd Wright Builds Signature Home in Buchanan County - [2:41]

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SDR · Post by **SDR** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:38 pm

A new definition of "Signature Wright home" (a house bearing the red signature tile): "It means that Wright okayed, or selected, everything for the home -- either designed it, or okayed the purchase [of items] . . ."

There are seven other Wright homes in Iowa. None of them has a red tile . . . ?

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peterm · Post by **peterm** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:18 pm

Neither of the two houses in Oskaloosa has a tile.

KevinW · Post by **KevinW** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:46 pm

It has become almost comical the life these red tiles have taken on..each definition seems to stretch just a little more than the last.

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:33 pm

I thought the same thing. Every single object (and its exact placement, one must assume!) approved by Wright.. Really now?

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:10 pm

Indeed.

The interview taken at the house seems to have been edited, at least at the jump to the bedrooms. It would be interesting to have seen and heard the whole interview.

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Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:14 am

Peter, you mean the placement of the ironing board didn't merit a red tile?

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:30 pm

Only if the slots on the screw heads are all positioned horizontally...

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:02 pm

The designer begins to lose control of his creation the moment it leaves his drawing board. That Mr Wright was able to see so many of his buildings erected and furnished with anything like fidelity to his vision is a credit to him and to the many who he was able to influence effectively -- I suppose. These others would include the apprentices, both drafters and supervisors, the client, the builder, and (last, and least effectively, perhaps) the client's spouse . . .

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peterm · Post by **peterm** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:23 pm

It's so wonderful to look at the photographs of the Usonian Exhibition house from 1953. Besides the two Taliesins, it is perhaps the closest thing to a complete Wright environment... Every functional and decorative object and its placement there must have approved by Wright (or at least John de Koven Hill...).

m.perrino · Post by **m.perrino** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:58 am

I thought the red tile was a subliminal sign by FLW and OLW, indicating that one day, Gurdjieff would have legal rights to any house thus designated, to be used for 'movements', criticisms and general mayhem. Isn't that correct ?

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Unbrook · Post by **Unbrook** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 11:11 am

Gurdjieff was dead by 1949, and most of the Red Tiles were after that?