FLW engagement calendar

dancedark · Post by **dancedark** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:53 am

For more years than I can remember, I have kept my day to day doings on a FLW engagement calendar. This year I can't find a single one available! Is this possible? Do any of you know of any 2016 Wright engagement calendars? Or do you have any recommendations for second best? I know there is one for 2007 already for pre-pub sale, but ...

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:58 pm

Every year for years I have bought my FLW calendar at Hennessey & Ingalls Book Store. This year ... nothing. I tried looking up Pomegranate Publishing, which has done FLW in the past, but found nothing. On Stuccu.com, I found wall calendars, even one for 2017, but only old ones, none for 2016.

I've saved 14 wall calendars which I recycle, since there are only 14 calendars needed, 7 leap year, 7 non-leap.

SREcklund · Post by **SREcklund** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:07 pm

My limited understanding is that Pomegranite no longer has the license to publish Wright items. My 2016 wall calendar is from a different company.

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:43 pm

Stan's understanding is not at all limited - it is the case that Pomegranite is no longer a publisher for Wright-related pieces.

There is a wall calendar for 2016 (different publisher) - but no engagement calendar. Perhaps the Foundation will have someone picked out by this time next year to remedy that situation?

David

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 3:59 pm

Odd that the Foundation would let that opportunity slip by; they've had their hands busy with other issues, of course.

I have only two of the engagement books (1987 and 2001, both of them gifts) and perhaps eight or nine calendars, all published by Pomegranate. My 1988 wall calendar had two "Augusts" -- the aerial view of Lloyd Lewis -- so that page hangs above my drafting board. Daylight has faded the reproduction to blue and lavender . ..

SDR

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:20 pm

Pomegranate produced a wide variety of FLW items over the years not just calendars or appointment books. They lost the right to produce the vast majority of these items due to a contract dispute with the FLW Fdn. No Plan B was in place to replace this major vendor which accounts for the missing 2016 items. They have replaced some of the items (not identical) produced by a vendor called Galison/Mudpuppy.

This left a lot of FLW Gift Shops, located at various FLW Sites, scrounging for items to fill the holes in their inventory. I know for a fact that Pomegranate items contributed to at least 10% of our sales revenue at the Stockman House.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:28 pm

I can believe that. For many years, and even today, the Pomegranate calendar reproductions of Taliesin drawings and renderings have been the largest images of those works, by far, available to the public.

SDR

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:18 pm

Wowâ€¦shocking in a small way as I too have been using the desk calendar for years. I can't see any reason the Foundation would be involved as most of the Pomegranet items utilize new photos of the properties and not copyrighted items. Glancing at my 2015 calendar it does say copyright the Foundation. Certainly the use of FLW name would be protected, but there's no reason they couldn't have an "Organic" Calendar or a "Prarie Style" calendar.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:01 pm

In any event the buildings depicted would have to be correctly identified -- wouldn't they ?

SDR

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:22 pm

Exactly, I think there's a strong legal basis for calling a calendar of FLW buildings the "FLW Buildings Calendar".

I sent the Conservancy an email suggesting they take on the task of producing a calendar. I'd be happy to help and chip in some of my photos!

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:12 am

I think it really came down to a dispute concerning money not copyrights.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:37 pm

In the meantime, it might be sensible to get with the times: Post your engagements online.

m.perrino · Post by **m.perrino** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:31 am

I saw the 2016 calendar last week at the Bookstore - Taliesin West , but NOT the engagement book. You could call them - the store manager is Ms. Grace Tanaz .

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:25 am

The calendars I have are often themed; one year it was house renderings, another year photographs of public buildings (for instance). Is there any discernible theme to next year's calendar that you can recall ?

SDR

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:26 pm

The need for an ink on paper Engagement Calendar is soooo 20th Century.

You can not beat a shared calendar on an iPhone to keep all the members of the household on "the same page," so to speak.