Frank Lloyd Wright

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I've often wondered how, exactly, you eat dinner in one of those dining chairs he was so fond of, with a vertical wall of wood instead of a back to them.

Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i didnt know about the malson house,fucking hell, can we send the death sqauds to these morons ?

anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 6 March 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

A Richard Neutra house (the Maslon house) in Palm Springs was torn down a few years by some couple that just bought it for $2.5 million

I hate people

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Ennis-Brown still in danger

gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 1 May 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow. Not in danger from people, even. It's just going to fall the fuck down.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 1 May 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurlothrumbo's pics are terrific

jones (actual), Sunday, 1 May 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link


Is that because it's concrete? I'm not sure, but Louis Sullivan's Getty tomb isn't looking good as some of his other work, either.

OTOH, all of those yuppie prison colonies are going to start looking like shit in twenty years.

you work for irene (dymaxia), Monday, 2 May 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

yuppie prison colonies

OTM! Why is cinder block the building material of choice for all new buildings in my neighborhood? I mean, I know why... but there should be some point where no matter how cheap the building materials are, they're deemed too ugly to use.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 May 2005 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish those were my pics -- they were taken by one of our companions at the house. I guess you have to go looke in the site archives to find the pictures now, but yeah, they're worth it. He's got really amazing pics of falling water, too.

Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
I was in Chicago last week and went on a tour of FLW's home and studio. It was a gorgeous sunny day outside and I have to say that I almost wept a couple of times at how beautiful it all was, and how the view from every window made it seem that we were not right next to a busy, 21st century street.

The skylights were particularly affecting. I almost burst into tears when the tour entered the final room of the tour, the circular library. Luckily I am British, and nobody else in the tour party ever suspected that I wasn't made entirely of stone.

retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i am actually going to wright about his two unitarian churches, anyone want to talk about them

anthony, Thursday, 26 May 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.google.com/logos/frank_lloyd_wright.gif

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Also the Hollyhock House in LA is about to reopen (or already has) for tours. The restoration is not completely done, but it's done enough for people to go through it.

nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a good one in South Bend, IN.

Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a really great Google logo. They normally kinda suck.

Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I super enjoyed touring through Taliesin West in February. Quite the digs. I *loved* the fact that he used polished concrete floors, because that's actually something I'd like to do in the future (well, really concrete everything).

My girlfriend has a FLW based house on her street too in East Lansing, and its pretty bomb. It looks small from the outside, but ends up being pretty damn comfortable and roomy inside.

Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw him on an old "what's my line" recently. He carried himself like royalty. The panel didn't even need to be blindfolded! They knew the name, but not the face.

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

>OTM! Why is cinder block the building material of choice for all new buildings in my neighborhood? I mean, I know why... but there should be some point where no matter how cheap the building materials are, they're deemed too ugly to use.<

Don't hate just because someone doesn't know how to use forms to make it look interesting. Aerated concrete block is the STUFFS, let me tell you now.

BTW, what is it with Americans and wood frame construction? I'm an American, and I can barely figure it out.

Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

went to his house in Oak Park today, it salvaged another brutally hot day.

Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

ten years pass...

Architect David Romero is constructing unbuilt FLW buildings as 3D renders. The results are pretty good: http://www.hookedonthepast.com

(currently intrigued by the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective)

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 February 2023 06:05 (one year ago) link

I posted a couple of months ago about a Philip Johnson biography I read. Interesting dynamic between him and Wright. They seemed to hate each other but understood how the other could be useful so kept up an arm's-length relationship. At first Johnson needed Wright (definitely), later on the reverse (less so).

clemenza, Thursday, 9 February 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link

I live a mile from his home and studio, AMA.

What's that? The first question is, is there indeed a big ginkgo tree out front that often smells like dog shit? Why, yes, funny you should ask, there is! It's historic and can't be cut down.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link

Well I live under an hour from Taliesen and only recently learned about the axe murdering and fire:
https://www.history.com/news/the-massacre-at-frank-lloyd-wrights-love-cottage

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Some nice photos here of Price Tower, his only skyscraper:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/price-tower

lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 30 March 2023 07:54 (one year ago) link

Love those interior shots. His chairs are mostly uncomfortable as fuck, but I love the thought he put into interiors, even when he was a cranky bastard about the proper use of "his" buildings.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link

Is it challopsy to say that I don't really like his late-career round building phase?

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 30 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link

Friends of ours stayed at a Wright house just outside of Cleveland and had a little Christmas party while they were there. Really beautiful interior.

https://www.penfieldhouse.com/

brownie, Thursday, 30 March 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link


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