I wish there was one of these for every Wright house. Well filmed.
http://youtu.be/r7HiZNeKmuA
Jacobs video
Lovely... I hadn't seen this one before.
There are those seemingly irrational elements that pop up now and then, in this case the perforated triangular lights. I can think of no other triangular elements to be found in this house.
What I also see when looking at this house, is the reference (intentional or not...) to log cabin construction and the chinking. The contrasting colors of pine and redwood plus wider sunk batten (not as sunk?) exaggerate the effect. Maybe the result wa too close for comfort? Isn't this the only Usonian with the contrasting woods?
There are those seemingly irrational elements that pop up now and then, in this case the perforated triangular lights. I can think of no other triangular elements to be found in this house.
What I also see when looking at this house, is the reference (intentional or not...) to log cabin construction and the chinking. The contrasting colors of pine and redwood plus wider sunk batten (not as sunk?) exaggerate the effect. Maybe the result wa too close for comfort? Isn't this the only Usonian with the contrasting woods?
Wow. A $5500 palace. What fine shots. Much is captured; the flow of space, the richness of simple material well used -- extravagant ubiquity ? The ceilings finally get their due on film. The slenderness of partitions is revealed. Are the glazed doors in the kitchen original ? An unusual move for Wright, in a Usonian, and a treat. Gallery and bedrooms are so seldom presented.
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Photos taken after the magnificent restoration -- perhaps the only one to dispense with visible roof flashing, as Wright drew them -- clearly showed a warm amber tint to the siding -- indeed, perhaps , to all exterior woodwork -- which no doubt was found necessary to mitigate the effects of previous finishes, uneven weathering, etc. While initially a bit alarming, it was not unattractive, and I've grown quite fond of it, in fact. I have no doubt, further, that this color has faded somewhat, and that the inevitable effects of exposure are once again working their ways on the exterior of the house.
It's too bad that we don't have, as far as I know, color photos taken of Jacobs in its first year; the pine boards and the redwood battens, which show up as virtually black and white in black-and-white photos, were surely of a cooler tint than at present. The pine would have been some form of light yellow, and the redwood a fairly bright pink when freshly milled. (Reds read remarkably dark in monochrome photos, I have always thought.) These initial tones would have changed within the first six month to progressively darker and browner, then grayer, hues.
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It's too bad that we don't have, as far as I know, color photos taken of Jacobs in its first year; the pine boards and the redwood battens, which show up as virtually black and white in black-and-white photos, were surely of a cooler tint than at present. The pine would have been some form of light yellow, and the redwood a fairly bright pink when freshly milled. (Reds read remarkably dark in monochrome photos, I have always thought.) These initial tones would have changed within the first six month to progressively darker and browner, then grayer, hues.
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"Outside, the Ponderosa pine boards and redwood battens were completely cleansed of a creosote preservative, introduced during the 1950s, and a red paint trim on the windows and doors was carefully removed."
http://www.usonia1.com/03_rest.html
http://www.usonia1.com Notice the link to "Purchasing"! (...I never received a response
maybe someone else will have better luck!)
http://www.eiflerassociates.com/Jacobs.htm
Creosote, or no creosote, wood does what wood wants to:
http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-V ... stinction/
http://www.usonia1.com/03_rest.html
http://www.usonia1.com Notice the link to "Purchasing"! (...I never received a response
maybe someone else will have better luck!)http://www.eiflerassociates.com/Jacobs.htm
Creosote, or no creosote, wood does what wood wants to:
http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-V ... stinction/
Jacaobs House
Is any of the furniture original?
A livable and lived in museum... It appears to be in remarkable condition; John Eifler did a great job.
Your question about the furniture made me wonder if much of the original furniture ended up at Jacobs 2?
Isn't the sofa here from the Henredon Heritage collection? That, of course, could not possibly be original since the line appeared years after Jacobs 1.
Your question about the furniture made me wonder if much of the original furniture ended up at Jacobs 2?
Isn't the sofa here from the Henredon Heritage collection? That, of course, could not possibly be original since the line appeared years after Jacobs 1.
According to the Jacobs memoir (pp 14-16) Wright visited them in their Madison flat, declared their family furniture "prehistoric," and later agreed to
draw some pieces, which were made by Harold and Clarence Westcott -- perhaps Wright's only "conventional" modern seating ?
http://guerrerophoto.com/portfolio/jacobs/ (Last interior photo has been flopped.)
The current diagonal seating arrangements are novel, if nothing else, and divide the space usefully ?
It's hard to believe that the restoration is now 25 yard old. These Futagawa exteriors were published in 1991:
This too-pale ? (desaturated) photos shows the freshly-refinished house, with new planter. Note color of brick.
This one, on the other hand, is suspicious because of the orange-y brick; has it been pushed a bit in the yellow direction ? Nevertheless, the uniformity of color on all woodwork
indicates (to me) some degree of stain or other finish.
The brick color here is believable; it is possible that I am wrong about the presence of stain . . .
Here's a Simon Clay photo published in 1999. The brick seems about right in color, if a bit too pink; the pine has darkened considerably as would be expected, finished or not:
Wright's work here would be eye candy to constructivists of any stripe or period. Planes and solid are articulated, sliding around next to one another; light seeps out in strips
arranged both vertically and horizontally. It's the richness of (very common) material and the decorated surface of the ceiling plane which differentiate Wright's from most
European work of the period.
Photos available online vary considerably in saturation, from the sublime to the ridiculous:
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.co ... 782522.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_a ... _front.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianaberle ... otostream/
Shame on those busy digital devils who make such effects available, to amateur and professional alike ! (Would any self-respecting professional so indulge ?)
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draw some pieces, which were made by Harold and Clarence Westcott -- perhaps Wright's only "conventional" modern seating ?
http://guerrerophoto.com/portfolio/jacobs/ (Last interior photo has been flopped.)
The current diagonal seating arrangements are novel, if nothing else, and divide the space usefully ?
It's hard to believe that the restoration is now 25 yard old. These Futagawa exteriors were published in 1991:
This too-pale ? (desaturated) photos shows the freshly-refinished house, with new planter. Note color of brick.
This one, on the other hand, is suspicious because of the orange-y brick; has it been pushed a bit in the yellow direction ? Nevertheless, the uniformity of color on all woodwork
indicates (to me) some degree of stain or other finish.
The brick color here is believable; it is possible that I am wrong about the presence of stain . . .
Here's a Simon Clay photo published in 1999. The brick seems about right in color, if a bit too pink; the pine has darkened considerably as would be expected, finished or not:
Wright's work here would be eye candy to constructivists of any stripe or period. Planes and solid are articulated, sliding around next to one another; light seeps out in strips
arranged both vertically and horizontally. It's the richness of (very common) material and the decorated surface of the ceiling plane which differentiate Wright's from most
European work of the period.
Photos available online vary considerably in saturation, from the sublime to the ridiculous:
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.co ... 782522.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_a ... _front.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianaberle ... otostream/
Shame on those busy digital devils who make such effects available, to amateur and professional alike ! (Would any self-respecting professional so indulge ?)
SDR
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I think the original chairs from Jacobs 1 were taken in the move to Jacobs 2.
Jacobs 1:
http://guerrerophoto.com/portfolio/jacobs/
Jacobs 2:
https://throughtheluminarylens.files.wo ... smart1.jpg
Jacobs 1:
http://guerrerophoto.com/portfolio/jacobs/
Jacobs 2:
https://throughtheluminarylens.files.wo ... smart1.jpg
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I think there are two things going on here regarding stain: photography and colors are never consistent; keep in mind that the bricks are all from the Johnson Wax building, so the bricks should read read/terra cotta. Secondly, we have been experimenting with a variety of stains over the years. When the project began it was a creosote-based brown stain. Olympic for a while, then Sikkens. Now Jim is an advocate of a water-based stain from Germany. We'll see how well it does over the next few years. The only color that all of the stains we have used in the past is that required to provide UV protection. They have all been essentially clear finishes.