SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY PROCEEDS FROM EVERY SALE GOES TO SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY. CLICK TO ORDER.         WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION       WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY     WE PROUDLY SUPPORT FALLINGWATER AND THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY     AUSGEFUHRTE BAUTEN In 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright produced the "Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright" (S.87), published by Ernst Wasmuth, in Berlin. Each set consisted of two portfolios with a combined total of one hundred separate plates (sheets). Printed in German. The complete set... NOW AVAILABLE "Frank Lloyd Wright's Nakoma Clubhouse & Sculptures." A comprehensive study of Wright’s Nakoma Clubhouse and the Nakoma and Nakomis Sculptures. In 1923, Frank Lloyd Wright presented drawings for a clubhouse to the Nakoma Country Club, which was adjacent to the Nakoma... A limited edition. Now Available. More information. WRIGHT PORTRAITS Photographic Chronology of Frank Lloyd Wright Portraits. The purpose of this page is to document, clarify and date photographs and portraits of Frank Lloyd Wright. Please feel free to send us any information that will clarify any of these images. SMITH BANK CHAIR (1905) Original Barrel Chair from the Frank L. Smith Bank. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905. Smith first contacted Wright in 1904. The first designed was a three story bank, which Smith rejected. In 1905 Wright’s second design, a one and a half story structure was accepted. The seat is round, as are the...   WRIGHT SLIDESHOW   WRIGHT LETTER (1918) Original handwritten letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Catherine L. Wright dated October 2nd, 1918. Wright attempts to persuade Catherine to grant him a divorce. She continues to refuses. June 1, 1889, Catherine and Frank were married in Chicago, Illinois. She was 17 years old. Raising a family dominated most of her time... BRADLEY WINDOW (1900) Original Dining Room Leaded Art Glass Window for the B. Harley Bradley Residence, 1900. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1900. The Bradley Residence is one of Wight’s earliest Prairie Houses, and is considered by most to be his first. The depth of Frank Lloyd Wright’s... NAKOMA STUDY Nakoma Clubhouse Nakoma and Nakomis Sculptures (1923/24) Madison, Wisconsin, was as close to what Wright would call a home town. In 1878 when he was 11 years old his family settled in Madison. He lived there until 1887 when he moved to Oak Park....   WALSER SIDEBOARD (1903) Original Sideboard Cabinet Door Art Glass from the J. J. Walser Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903. The building permit was issued in May, 1903 and completed and occupied by the end of the year. The house sat on an uncrowded lot, in the...   DARWIN D. MARTIN'S COPY Darwin D. Martin's copy of the 1902 Chicago Architectural Annual. A Selection of Work Exhibited at the Art Institute in March of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two. Hand written by Darwin D. Martin on the title page: “Return to D. D. Martin. 145 Summit Ave.” This copy was owned... COONLEY WINDOW (1908) Original Avery Coonley Dining Room Leaded Art Glass Windows, 1908. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. Wright created a different window design for all four Coonley buildings: Residence, Carriage House, Gardener’s Cottage and the Playhouse. For some buildings, there were multiple designs. We were able to identify three separate... SONDERN TABLE (1940) Original Sondern Two-Part Dining Room Table, 1940. Two original sectional dining room tables for the Clarence W. Sondern Residence. Clarence Sondern, was a laboratory director for a chemical company in Kansas City. The Sondern house was designed by Wright as a Usonian home in 1939. In 1944...   ADELMAN DINING TABLE Original two piece Dining Room table for the Benjamin Adelman House. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1951. Wright designed a laundry facility and three homes for Benjamin Adelman, and a home (two schemes) for his son, Albert Adelman. Wright's first project for Benjamin Adelman was a commercial building for his laundry and dry-cleaning... ORIGINAL POSTER (1952) Original Silkscreen Poster produced for the Frank Lloyd Wright: 60 Years of Living Architecture, Munich, Germany Exhibition. Text: “Frank Lloyd Wright. Ausstellung, 60 Jahre Arhitektur. Haus der Kunst - Munchen. 16. Mai - 15.Juni. 9-18 Uhr. Markgraf-Druck K.G... E-Z POLISH LETTERHEAD Original Letterhead and Monogram for the E-Z Polish Factory, including additional copies of correspondence between William Martin and Alfonso Iannelli Studio. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905, this letter was dated May 31, 1934. The E-Z Polish Factory building was not the... HEURTLEY COTTAGE (1902) Did Frank Lloyd Wright Design the Heurtley Cottage? The design of the cottage is not attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright because of a lack of records. In 1902, Heurtley commissioned Wright to make alterations to the cottage. In the Frank Lloyd Wright archives, now at the Avery Library, Columbia University is one plan for an "Alteration... HOUSE BEAUTIFUL The House Beautiful (1896-8) Published by The Auvergne Press, River Forest. The Auvergne Press was established by two of Wright's clients, William H. Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams in the stable designed for Winslow. Printed by hand by Winslow... EVE OF ST. AGNES One of only 65 copies. The Auvergne Press was established in February 1896 by two of Wright's clients, William Herman Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams, to create hand printed, limited edition books. "Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest..." Wright places a maiden to the left and right of the title. She is encircled by a stylized rose... AVERY COONLEY (1907) Avery Coonley Residence, Riverside, Illinois, 2018 (1907 - S.135) (FLLW #0803). Set of 135 exterior photographs of the Coonley Residence. On a trip through the Midwest, we had the opportunity to visit and photograph the Coonley Residence. Designed... HOTEL GENEVA WINDOW Original Lake Geneva Hotel leaded art glass window from the Lake Geneva Hotel. It features a chevron design and conventionalized flower motif. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1911 as "The Geneva Inn", "The Geneva" opened in August 1912. Within two years, it changed ... BOOTH FLOOR LAMPS (1915) Two Original Floor Lamps for the Sherman M. Booth Residence, Glenco, Illinois. Designed in 1915 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Sherman Booth, Wright's attorney and close friend, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Sherman Booth Residence, Scheme II, which included these floor... HOUSE BEAUTIFUL PROOF The House Beautiful (Original Collotype Proof) (Proof photographed and hand printed by Frank Lloyd Wright circa 1896. Proof on Japanese tissue before publication of "The House Beautiful" by William Channing Gannett. Auvergne Press, River Forest, Ill., 1897. Design... WRIGHT'S FIRST ARTICLE Art in the Home. Read before the Home Decoration and Furnishing Department of the Congress on May 5, 1898. (Symposium of the Annual Art Congress held in the Art Institute, Chicago, May 3, 4, and 5, 1898.) Wright’s first speech entitled "The Architect and the Machine" was written, typed and delivered to the University Guild... HUSSER DISCOVERED Husser Fireplace Discovered. It all began with an e-mail... "I came across an image in The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright that shows a detail of the Martin mosaic - however that didn’t seem right to me and through image comparisons I realized that it’s the Husser mosaic." Well, we believe he is right. We decided to compare the Husser fireplace... SIXTY YEAR EXHIBIT (1952) Frank Lloyd Wright: America’s Most Famous Architect. Rotterdam, Holland 1952. Original poster published for the exhibition Sixty Years of Living Architecture, The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, held "in het ahoy' gebouw" (in the Ahoy Building), Rotterdam, Holland, 1952. The...   WRIGHT QUOTE A Home may be the noblest of all works of art... Go to Nature, consider her ways. Let your home appear to grow easily from its site, and shape it to sympathize with the surroundings... What we need today is that art shall have a new direction and artists consider the possibilities of an easy chair or the fireplace quite as important as the house itself or the picture on its walls... — Frank Lloyd Wright, “Art in the Home.” Arts for America, June, 1898. 1953 MINIC PROTOTYPES Minic Rectangular Planter and Hexagonal Weed Vase Prototypes, 1953-1954. Prototypes were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Taliesin Ensemble, which consisted of Furniture, Accessories, Fabric, Wallpaper, Carpet and Paint. From the inception of Taliesin Ensemble in 1953 to forming the partnerships and to finally... EXPERIMENTING... (1923) Experimenting With Human Lives. The Fine Art Society, Olive Hill, Hollywood, California.(Published by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago.) This undated pamphlet was written after the 1923 earthquake in Japan. "The rim of the Pacific basin is no place to experiment with human lives in the interests of an architectural...   HICKOX WINDOW (1900) Two original art glass windows from the Warren Hickox Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1900. Both the Hickox and Bradley houses are considered Wright’s first prairie styled houses. The depth of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design incorporated interior...   ORIGINAL WRIGHT DRAWING Duey & Julia Wright Residence. Original hand-drawn and signed ink, graphite and colored pencil drawing of the Workspace floor plan and elevations for the Duey & Julia Wright Residence. Signed in pencil by Frank Lloyd Wright: "FLLW, July 57." Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957. In 1955, Wright... MIDWAY GARDENS (1914) Frank Lloyd Wright. Midway Gardens covered a city block and included the exterior summer garden with performance stage and an interior Winter Garden for year round entertainment. Wright designed the complete structure: furnishings, furniture, sculptures, murals, windows, dinnerware, monogram, a complete work of art. The Midway...  PRICE TOWER TABLE 1953 Price Tower Office Desk or Typing Table 1953 for the Price Tower. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Price Tower in 1952 for Harold C. Price, Sr. Construction began on November 10, 1953 and was completed on February 9, 1956. The Price Tower has nineteen floors and 37,000... TALIESIN EYES Taliesin Eyes. In 1938, the Taliesin Fellowship apprentices published single sheet "newspapers" in various sizes. They were published on October 1, 8, 15, 22, and Nov. 5, 12, 19 and 24, 1938. A total of eight issues were published. The last three issues included linoleum-cut illustrations. "Prelude: It won’t be long before the Taliesin Caravan for the... SIXTY YEARS - LA 1954 Sixty Years of Living Architecture Exhibition, Los Angeles 1954. Set of 41 B&W and color photographs by Loch Crane, Wright apprentice from 1941-42. Note: this is one of the most extensive set of images of the Los Angeles exhibition we have seen to date. "Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd... WRIGHT VISITS JAPAN Frank Lloyd Wright visits the Great Budda in Kamakura, Japan, Circa 1921. Construction began on the Imperial Hotel in 1917 and on July 4, 1922 the first section of Imperial Hotel opened. In August 1923 the hotel was complete. Wright made several trips to Japan, including this one when he visited Kamakura, approximately.... 1951 EXHIBITION Sixty Years of Living Architecture, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1951. Set of 40 B&W photographs by Ancillotti & Co., of the exhibition "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" held in Florence, Italy, 1951. This set of 40 B&W photographers documents 10 models, 42 photographs and nine illustrations on display at the exhibition. "Sixty Years of Living...   WYOMING CHAIR (1958) Wyoming Valley School Chair & Stool After contacting the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, where the Frank Lloyd Wright archives are held, we reviewed drawings and correspondence related to both projects. Specific information related to the furniture was... NAKOMA FURNITURE Furniture of the Nakoma Clubhouse. John Rattenbury oversaw all the interior designs and details for the Nakoma Clubhouse in 2001, including the furniture, art glass windows, custom hand-knotted carpets from China, even the dining room place settings, adapting the design, as he did for the Lykes Residence, from Wright’s original plans. For the upholster... LOST DESIGN DISCOVERED Lost Wright Design Discovered: Sussman Scheme II (1956). Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956. They include: A) Perspective. B) Three Elevations, South East, South West and North West. C) Ground and Floor plan. The design for the second set of plans is dated February 1, 1955. It also included two sets of eight working plans for the house. Two weeks later... AMERICAN SYSTEM-BUILT American System-Built Houses. Descriptive booklet for the American System-Built Houses. Most likely published early 1917. "During the winter of 1916-1917 he (Mr. Wright) has been overseeing the construction of the great new Imperial Hotel..." p.4. A larger six-page booklet was published in...   LITTLE I WINDOW (1902) Original Little Residence I leaded art glass window. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1902. Francis Little was an attorney and owner of a utility company in Peoria, Illinois. He hired his friend, Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home in Peoria... WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Original Wedding Announcement of Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Wright, at Rancho Santa Fe, California, 25 August 1928. “Iovanna. Married, August 25, Rancho Santa Fe, California. Olga Ivanovna, Daughter of Ivan Lazovich and Militza Milan... WRIGHT MODELS Wright at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 24-25, 1930. Wright is looking at a model of the Richard Lloyd Jones Residence (S.227 - 1929). Traveling exhibition entitled "The Show" at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25 - October 12, 1930. "The Show" exhibited... RARE VIEW OF TALIESIN II Rare view of the Sitting Room at Taliesin II. Circa 1915-17. When Taliesin I was built, this was the Sitting Room adjacent to two Bedrooms on the South end of the Private Residence. See floor plan Frank Lloyd Wright Select Houses 2, Pfeiffer, 1996, p.28. The doorway on the far left did not exist. The room actually ended on the left side... ORIGINAL FLOOR PLAN Original George Berdan Ground and Upper Floor Plan, Ludington, Michigan (Project 1945). Original drawing for the Ground and Upper Floor Plan for the George Berdan Residence (Project). In 1945, George Berdan commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a summer home on... TALIESIN 1955 Taliesin, 1955. Set of 55 photographs by Maynard Parker at Taliesin. In 1955, Elizabeth Gordon, editor of House Beautiful, dedicated the November issue to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright, His Contribution to the Beauty of ... WRIGHT STUDY (1900) Williams Adams Residence. The exterior of the home was similar to others of this early period. It was nearly the last of his early houses before his design for the full fledged prairie styled house, the Bradley house of the same year. The exterior of the Adams hinted at prairie elements. But what was most startling was the interior of the Adams residences... HOTEL GENEVA SCONCES Original pair of Hotel Geneva Wall Sconces. "The Geneva" opened in August 1912. Within two years, it changed hands due to financial difficulties. By the end of 1914 and the beginning of 1915 the name was changed to the "Hotel Geneva", and it stayed the Hotel Geneva most of its life... MARTIN RESIDENCE VASE Martin Residence Vase, Historic Arts & Castings, 1992, Buffalo, New York (1904 - S.100). Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1904 for the Darwin D. Martin Residence. Among the overwhelming number of drawings for the Darwin Martin House, are plans for a Library Bookcase... WENDINGEN (1921) Wendingen 1921 Wendingen, was published from 1918 through 1931, by ‘‘Architectura et amicitia’’, an Amsterdam-based society, and developed into the major representative of the Amsterdam School. Frank Lloyd Wright.” This issue was devoted to Wright. It includes 22 photographs and... WRIGHT STUDY The Bradley Residence is one of Wight’s earliest Prairie Houses, and is considered by most to be his first. The depth of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design incorporated interior furnishing, carpets, built-ins, art glass windows and landscaping, creating a complete harmonious design. The Bradley House incorporated many design... LEWIS MUMFORD, AUTHOR "One of our great redwoods has fallen and left a space we cannot fill by any quick plantation of lesser trees... By general agreement today, he counts as one of the greatest creative artist the nineteenth century brought forth in any field... It took three centuries to grown this man, and it may take an even longer time to plumb the depths of his genius and to follow through to their ultimate destinations all the trails he opened up." From "The Highway and the City," Mumford, 1963. A compilation of 23 articles written by Mumford between 1953 and 1963, including two concerning Frank Lloyd Wright. 1) "What Wright Hath... Continue... WALL SCONCES (1908) Wall Sconces 1908. Two original wall sconces used in a number of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie house commissions. We have identified nine Wright designed homes and buildings, to date, where these fixtures are used. Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (1889-1911), Westcott (1904... BUILDINGS, PLANS 1963 Buildings, Plans And Designs, Frank Lloyd Wright. Published in Japanese, English and German. In 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright produced the "Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright," published by Ernst Wasmuth, in Berlin. Each set consisted of two portfolios with a combined...   PRICE TOWER TABLE (1953) Original Price Tower Office Table 1953. Small free-standing office table for the Price Tower. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Price Tower in 1952 for Harold C. Price, Sr. Construction began on November 10, 1953 and was completed on February 9, 1956. The Price Tower has... SPENCER BENCH Original bench from the Spencer Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1956. Scheme #2 is what Frank Lloyd Wright called a solar Hemicycle. Very similar to the Laurent (1949) and Pearce (1950) Residences. The Spencers moved into their home in 1959. “To make the furniture, Spencer hired Robert Baker, who built models at DuPont’s craft shop... CHARNLEY FRIEZE James Charnley Residence Decorative Frieze Panel. Original decorative wood frieze panel from the James Charnley Residence. Designed in 1891 by Frank Lloyd Wright. James Charnley was a wealthy lumberman who was a personal friend of Louis Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright was the chief draftsman at the... AUSGEFUHRTE BAUTEN Ausgeführte Bauten Und Entwürfe by Wasmuth 1924. This is an undated German edition and was published by Wasmuth in Berlin. 100 Plates but reduced to 13 x 19". All one hundred plates are placed in one portfolio like the 1963 version, and the portfolio is similar to that version. The emboss is missing. This was an unauthorized...   UNPUBLISHED DESIGN Robert Llewellyn Wright Residence (Project 1945). Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his youngest son. Text hand written on drawing: "Dear Llewellyn - Betty - et al. How’s this? Dad." The illustration is dated "1945." Although Pfeiffer published the 1953 "Scheme 1" in both Monograph 1951-1959 and Wright 1943-1959, this 1945 project appears to be... ORIGINAL LOEB DRAWING Original Aerial Presentation Drawing for the Gerald M. Loeb Residence. In 1938, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Ralph Jester home, but construction costs forced Jester to forgo building the home. Wright revived the design in 1944 for Gerald Loeb "Hilltop House." Named Hilltop House because it was placed on a large treeless...   AULDBRASS (1940) Ornamental Downspout for the Leigh Stevens, Auldbrass Plantation. Frank Lloyd Wright designed some of the first buildings on the property in 1939. Wright originally designed copper ornamental downspouts for Auldbrass, but copper was difficult to obtain so at Stevens’ request... DALLAS THEATRE CHAIR Dallas Theatre Center (1955). Original theatre seat for the Dallas Theatre Center’s, Kalita Humphreys Theater. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1955. The Dallas Theater Center opened with registration and classes on September 9, 1959 and its first production on December 27, 1959. This is the only Theater... WRIGHT LETTERHEAD Frank Lloyd Wright Letterhead, 1903. Forest And Chicago Avenues, Oak Park, Illinois, Telephone Oak Park Fifty Three. Under the typed name of Frank Lloyd Wright, there are three initials that appear like WBG. Walter Burley Griffin was an integral part of the Wright Studio fro 1901 to 1905... WRIGHT CORRESPONDENCE Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Peter B. Welch, March 16th, 1950. "Mr. Peter B. Welch. General Delivery. Carmel. California. Dear Peter Welch: There is no room for a family in the Fellowship at this time and not likely to be for some years. Very Sorry - Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright (Signed), Frank Lloyd Wright . March 16th, 1950." Envelope: "Mr. Peter B. Welch... WRIGHT STUDY (1903) Kenwood (Harding) Dining Room Remodel, Chicago 2019 (1903 - S.012). Frank Lloyd Wright remodeled a dining room at 4842 Kenwood Avenue. Records indicate that Charles Ford and Hattie Hover Harding lived in the house as early as 1903. An interesting connection was their... WRIGHT STUDY (1947) Unitarian Meeting House. When Frank Lloyd Wright presented the initial presentation in May, 1947, he designed an elaborate geometric stained glass window for the prow of the auditorium. Due to cost restraints, he designed the slanting bays of glass and wood sills. The cantilevered Roof shelters the stairs and the Entrance. The low wall near the... ARCHITECTE AMERICAIN Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecte Americain. 1932. Extrait de "L'Architecture Vivante" (Excerpt from "Living Architecture"). Publication Etablie Par Les Soins Des Editions Albert Morance, A Paris, 30-32, Rue De Fleurus. Published in French, this volume is a reprint of an extensive article... WRIGHT STUDY (1952) Marden Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952, construction began 1956, and was completed on May 30, 1959. Although Luis Marden was a professional photographer, early photographs of the home could not be found, and their desire for privacy kept this Wright home a hidden gem. The first "hemicycle" home... WRIGHT CHAIRS Wright designed hundreds of different chairs. Many for individual homes and businesses.  Imperial Hotel Side Chair, Tokyo, Japan. Description: Original side chairs had caning on the seat, back and side. Wright repeated the hexagonal shape of the... LLEWELLYN WRIGHT STUDY Robert Llewellyn Wright Residence, Bethesda, Maryland, Exterior 2020. Set of 71 photographs of the exterior of the Robert Llewellyn Wright Residence. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his son in 1953. The home is a two-story, three bedroom, 1,800 square foot concrete block structure. The house is composed of intersection and concentric segments of a circle, or "hemicycles... COONLEY WINDOW (1908) Two original windows for the Avery Coonley House, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. Wright created a different design for all four Coonley buildings, and for some buildings, multiple designs. We were able to identify three separate window designs for the Avery Coonley Residence. A: Main window design for the... TALIESIN WEST (1946) Taliesin West 1946. Set of 56 photographs by Maynard Parker at Taliesin West. In 1946, Elizabeth Gordon, editor of House Beautiful, made the decision to show case Taliesin West, the winter home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. "One man's house. We give much lip service to two...   LARKIN MONOGRAM (1903) The questions that has to be asked: Did Wright design the "LCO" monogram? We have not had the opportunity to review all of Wright’s drawings for the Larkin Building, so we can only speculate. Wright was very protective of the image photographs portrayed. He would go as far as removing furniture from homes he was photographing, if they...   Continue... SIXTY YEARS EXHIBITION Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, was a traveling exhibition of Wright's work, consisting of Models, photographs and original drawings. A Preview of the exhibition was held in Philadelphia (January 1951). The world wide tour opened in Palazzo Strozzi Florence, Italy (June 1951). In "Sixty Years" (New York), Wright notes that from Florenc... HELLER RESIDENCE (1896) Heller Residence. Isidore H. Heller was born in Austria in 1847 and his wife, Ida, was born in Wisconsin in 1857. Heller immigrated to Chicago, and with his partners Christian Wolf and George J. Sayer, formed Wolf, Sayer & Heller, Inc., one of the leading suppliers of butchers' and packers' supplies, with offices in New York, Chicago and Montreal...   WENDINGEN (1925) Wendingen 1925. Seven part series. The Life-Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright With Contributions by Frank Lloyd Wright. An Introduction by Architect H. Th. Wijdeveld and Many Articles by Famous European Architects and American Writers. Holland. 1925." All seven issue were devoted to... THE DISAPPEARING CITY The Disappearing City There are two versions. The change occurs only on the covers. The two covers were most likely a result of events caused by the Great Depression, not the printing of a second edition. The contract was signed on November 17, 1931 between Frank Lloyd Wright and William... UNITARIAN MT HOUSE (1951) First Unitarian Society - Unitarian Meeting House, Pew. Designed in 1947, construction began in 1949. On August 21, 1951, the church opened with a lecture by Frank Lloyd Wright. "Plywood bench seating was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright specifically for the meeting house of the First Unitarian Society of Madison... WRIGHT LECTURE POSTER Frank Lloyd Wright. Rebel... Prophet... Genius. Lectures on: Modern Architecture at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. November 9th (1932). This poster announced Frank Lloyd Wright's lectures on Modern Architecture. This was two years after he spoke at Princeton. Those lectures were... IMPERIAL HOTEL WINDOW Original leaded glass and gold-foiled glass window from the Imperial Hotel. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915, construction began in 1917 and on July 4, 1922 the first section of Wright's Imperial Hotel opened. In August 1923 the hotel was complete. On September 1, 1923 a major earthquake destroyed Tokyo. The Imperial Hotel stood... NAKOMIS SCULPTURE Frank Lloyd Wright designed the 18 foot Nakomis and 16 foot Nakoma in 1923-24 for the Nakoma Memorial Gateway project. Although the it was related to and was to be within eyesight of the Nakoma Country Club Clubhouse, it was a separate project. When the Nakoma... WRIGHT STUDY (1953) Adelman Residence. This home is considered to be the first Usonian Automatic House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1936, Wright developed a series of homes he called Usonian. They were designed to control costs. He continued to develop the concept, and in the early 1950s he first used the term Usonian Automatic to describe... THE OTHER FIRE: 1963 Taliesin West Music Pavilion Burns. Sept 27 – This 5-year-old auditorium at Taliesin West, the architectural school founded by the late Frank Lloyd Wright, was destroyed by fire today. Cause of the blaze wasn’t known, although it was believed to have started among some drapes being stored in the structure. Firemen prevented the flames from spreading to other... BROWNE'S BOOKSTORE Browne's Bookstore. Located adjacent to the Auditorium Building on Michigan Avenue, the Fine Arts Building was originally The Studebaker Building, a carriage factory and showroom. By 1895, the building proved insufficient, and the Studebakers decided to convert the building into studios and theaters to be an artistic and literary center... BLAIR BLUEPRINTS 1952 Quintin & Ruth Blair Residence Blueprint Sets 1952. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952. The 1,500 square foot house is laid out on a four foot grid system. The house is dominated by a low flat roof that raises dramatically over the living room which reaches fifteen feet high on the Northeast side, and then cantilevers out eight feet, much like...   WRIGHT STUDY (1954) Feiman Residence. This The Feiman Residence is considered the first Usonian house built, based on Wright's design for the New York exhibition house. While the New York exhibition house was based on the 3 foot square module, and utilized brick and oak plywood, the Feiman house was based on the four foot module and constructed of brick and Philippine mahogany. The openings in... Continue... HISTORIC SET OF IMAGES Arizona 1956. Original set of 17 color slides (of a set of 18 slides) from the Color Classics From Arizona Highways offered in the February 1956 issue of Arizona Highways. A total of 18 color photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work in Arizona were published in the issue and offered for sale (p.3). Taliesin west (8); David... LOST WRIGHT? Snow Flake Motel, Project Circa 1955. Aerial perspective of Snow Flake Motel "Mrs. Sarkesian, the wife of the original client, confirmed that it (the drawing) was done in 1955. It's sometimes hard to tell who the actual draughtsman was by the mid 50s. Could be Peterson or Howe. Sometimes Wright just added... WRIGHT STUDY (1908) Edmund D. Brigham Residence. There is much speculation as to the date of the Residence. But the date of 1915 seems to have survived. Upon further study, we found three published photographs of the Brigham Residence published in 1910, dating the construction as 1908. The first was a full page ad for the booklet Representative Cement... LUXFER PRISM GLASS Luxfer Prism Glass. Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Luxfer Prism, Large "V" (Purple Tint). Of the 41 Wright designs for the Luxfer Prism Company, it appears that only the first (No. 27,977) was produced. The patent describes it as having "lines of ornamentation produced upon the prism-light by... DAVID WRIGHT (1950) David & Gladys Wright House 1950-2004. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this home for his fourth child David, in March, 1950. Wright called the design "How to live in the Southwest", and was published in the June 1953, "House & Home." The lot was located in the middle of a citric grove, so Wright designed the living space to float above the tree line. David owned a company that...   THE JAPANESE PRINT (1912) The Japanese Print: An Interpretation Published by The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co. In 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright toured Japan. In 1906, Wright exhibits his collection of Japanese Hiroshige Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1908, Wright and three other major collectors exhibit their Japanese Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.. WRIGHT STUDY (1953) Cooke Residence. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the home in 1953, plans were completed, but the home was not built. In 1956, Wright designed a second home, scheme #2, a more traditional Usonian Automatic design with solid and perforated blocks. Plans were also completed for this design, but again, it was never built. In April 1959, the cooks went back to their original design and began construction... FRANCISCO TERRACE Francisco Terrace Apartments Terra Cotta block 1895. Original Frank Lloyd Wright designed terra cotta block salvaged from the facade of the Francisco Terrace Apartments when it was demolished in March 1974. One of Frank Lloyd Wright's early clients was real estate attorney and developer Edward Waller. After completing the Waller (S.031) and Francisco Terrace Apartments in 1895, Wright remodeled....   MONONA TERRACE (1961) Original 1961 Blueprints. In 1938, a private committee, headed by Paul F. Harloff commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a civic center on the shores of Lake Monona on a plot of land known as "Olin Terrace," a park at the end of the mall that extended from the state capital to the shores of... WRIGHT STUDY (1958) Pilgrim Congregational Church. The Fellowship Hall is set on a hillside, so as you approach the church from the parking lot, the church is below you. The roof is suspended below the beams, a unique feature of this Wright design, and the only completed building to utilize this feature. The precast concrete poles at the entry are on the exterior of the building, those to the South begin on the interior of the... BETH SHOLOM (1954) Beth Sholom Synagogue, Founded in 1919 the new Synagogue was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954, dedicated on September 20, 1959. With the help of Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen, Wright incorporated Jewish symbolism in the design of the Synagogue. The Synagogue was dedicated on September 20, 1959, a little more than five months after Wright’s death. Designed as a hexagon, the... WRIGHT STUDY (1903) Abraham Lincoln Center 2018 (1903 - S.095). Set of 129 images of the Abraham Lincoln Center 2018 (1903 - S.095). Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his uncle, Reverend Jenkin Lloyd Jones. As the All Souls Church outgrew their facility, Reverend Jones wanted a facility that could meet the needs of the community as well as the Church. Wright’s first design was for the All Souls’ Building, 1897. The design went.... WRIGHT STUDY Thaxton Residence. In 1954, William L. Thaxton, an insurance executive, commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the only home in Houston, Texas. The 1,800 square foot house, originally estimated to cost $25,000-35,000, ended up costing about $125,000 to build. "You didn't work with Mr. Wright," said Mr. Thaxton, "you presented Mr. Wright with a piece of property." The... RIVERVIEW TERRACE (1953) Riverview Terrace Restaurant Jardinière (Flower Box),  1953/ 1957/ 1967. A French term for a flower box where plants may be placed. It appears that many chairs were produced for the restaurant, but just a few Jardinière were produced. The River Terrace Restaurant was the only restaurant (not including those in the Imperial Hotel,..   QUADRUPLE HOMES Frank Lloyd Wright's Evolution of the Quadruple Homes. 1901: Quadruple Block Plan. Wright published his concept for the "Quadruple Block Plan" as part of "A Home in a Prairie Town." "The block plan... shows an arrangement of the four houses that secures breadth and prospect to the community as a whole, and absolute privacy both as regards... RARE PHOTO OF CHENEY Mamah Borthwick Cheney was born in Boone, Iowa. She received a BA at the University of Michigan, and later worked as a librarian in Port Huron, Michigan. In 1899, she married Edwin Cheney, an electrical engineer from Oak Park, Illinois, USA. They had two children: John (1902)...   WRIGHT STUDY Steffens Residence is a smaller version of Wright's Prairie styled homes and has been compared in design to the earlier Isabel Roberts Residence (1908 - S.150) in Oak Park. Although the home was built on a ridge about a block from Lake Michigan in the Birchwood neighborhood, Wright faced the home looking West, away from the lake...   MIDWAY GARDENS PC 1914 Midway Gardens Real Photo Postcard 1914. View of the Midway Gardens at night from the Southeast. Very early nighttime photograph. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1913. On June 27th, 1914, the Midway Gardens officially opened with the National Symphony Orchestra. It had two excellent years as an entertainment center providing exceptional dining, orchestra music, opera... RECAST MIDWAY GARDENS Recast Head from Interior Fountain at Midway Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Circa 1975/1914 (1913 - S.180). Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1913, the sculptures were executed by Alfonso Iannelli. Midway Gardens was built in 1914 and demolished... FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Set of 37 photographs. In 1949, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned by Peyton Canary, the President of Southwest Christian Seminary in Glendale, AZ, to design the buildings for their 80 acre campus. Dr. Canary cofounded the Seminary in 1947. The campus was to include the administrative buildings... ORIGINAL SPECIFICATIONS Church for the Milwaukee Hellenic Community. Original specs and drawings for the church. Cover is in pencil, drawn by Eugene Masslink. Pencil and pen changes and additions throughout. Drawings in pencil. All pages are typed or drawn on vellum.  This allows blue print... OPUS 497 GLASS HOUSE Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1944-1945 for the "Ladies Home Journal", the Opus 497 "Glass House" Model and Plan was published in the June 1945 issue. At first glance this image looks like a detail of Broadacre City, but upon further study, it was discovered to be a detail of the model built for the Ladies Home Journal in 1945. In January 1944... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY Frank Lloyd Wright Day Letterhead. "The Frank Lloyd Wright Day, 29 South La Salle Street, Chicago 3, Illinois." Red text. The front is printed in red (raised) ink, embossed and gilt or gold ink. Red text and red square is printed in a precise red raised ink. The four squares are embossed (raised) then ... MARILYN AND THE IMPERIAL Imperial Hotel and Marilyn Monroe 1954 (1915 - S.194). Marilyn Monroe sitting in a chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright while on her honeymoon at the Imperial Hotel. On January 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe and retired major-league baseball player Joe DiMaggio were married at... HARTFORD RESORT (1948) Hartford Resort Blueprints. Set of 10 original blueprints for the Huntington Hartford Cottage Group Center, Scheme II (Project). Huntington Hartford was born into one of the wealthiest families in the United States on April 18, 1911. His grandfather, founded the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in 1859. At the age of 12... MIDWAY GARDENS CHAIRS Midway Gardens was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1913, built in 1914 and demolished in 1929. This Midway Garden chair was designed by Wright in 1914, but never produced. In 1986, Cassina produced a line of furniture designed by Frank Lloyd... PETERS' MERCEDES 300SL William Wesley Peters was born on June 12, 1912. He attended Evansville College and MIT. He came from a wealthy family, his father was a newspaper publisher. In July, 1932, after he completed his second year at MIT, he visited Taliesin. He had read about Wright starting the Fellowship. After speaking with Wright, Wes paid the tuition in advance, becoming Wright’s... PORTRAIT BUST (1950) Frank Lloyd Wright Bronze Portrait Bust, 1950, By John Karl Daniels. Limited edition cast bronze bust of Frank Lloyd Wright, by sculptor John Karl Daniels. Daniels (1875-1978) was a Norwegian-American sculptor. His home and studio was on the grounds of the... WRIGHT STUDY (1953) Boomer Residence. About the time that Jorgine Boomer opted for a smaller residence instead of rebuilding the Pauson residence, George Clark decided against building his cottage on the Carmel coast. Not to let a good design go to waste, Wright erased Clark's name and replaced it with "Desert Cottage for Jorgine Boomer." He presented the plans to Boomer... POSTCARD PORTRAIT Rare postcard portrait of Wright. In December 1937, Wright visited the offices in preparation for publishing the January 1938 issue of Architectural Forum, which Frank Lloyd Wright designed and wrote. This image was published on page 1 of the January 1938 issue of Architectural Forum. In this image, the cigarette was airbrushed out of Wright’s mouth. Many postcards have been produced related.... HE BROKE WRIGHT'S NOSE C. R. Secrest (he broke Wright’s nose) and his wife. Clipping pasted to verso: "Beaten By Students After Fight With Wright. Following street fight in which C. R. Secrest of Madison, Wisc., is said to have fractured the nose of Frank Lloyd Wright, world famous architect  four students of Wright’s trade and craft... BLUMBERG PROJECT Melvin R Blumberg was born in Iowa and lived in Clinton most of his life. In 1931 when he was about 11 or 12, his mother commissioned a local artist to paint a portrait of him. A year earlier Grant Wood gained national notoriety when The Art Institute of Chicago awarded him a prize of $300 for American Gothic. Most mothers at the time would have... WRIGHT STUDY (1905) Sutton Residence. How often do you find yourself in McCook? It's 70 miles south of I-90, on the southern border of Nebraska. Unless you live close, probably rarely. Ours' turned out to be just that. On a recent trip with my daughter's family, driving from Chicago to Seattle, we found ourselves in North Platte at 3:30 pm on January 11. Timing was critical. My son-in-law...   SKYFALL, BOND & WRIGHT How does Frank Lloyd Wright relate to Skyfall? Wright designs Browne's Bookstore, Browne's Publishes book on Turner, Bond studies Turner painting. Scene 10. Bond entered the National Art Gallery, London, to meet the new Q for the first time. He sat in Room 34, on a bench, studying a painting by Joseph Mallord William (J. M. W.) Turner, RA. "The Fighting... J. L. SMITH BLUEPRINTS J. L. Smith Blueprint 1955. "House For Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Smith. Kane County, Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright, Jan 20 / 55. Elevations. Scale 1/4" = 1' - 0"." Upper: "Southeast Elevation." The Terrace is on the far left. The ceiling in the Workspace is lowered for the first three feet, then raises up to the of the Living Room... TALIESIN TABLE LAMP Taliesin Table Lamp circa 1961. Frank Lloyd Wright originally designed this lamp for Taliesin (Spring Green) in 1925. The shade cantilevers over a square base. In April 1925, fire struck Taliesin for the second time and destroyed the living quarters. Wright rebuilt again, expanding and enlarging the Dining and Living Room... WRIGHT STUDY (1892) Warren McArthur Residence, Chicago, 2019 (1892 - S.011). On a trip to Chicago, we had the opportunity to visit the McArthur Residence, located in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. The Kenwood neighborhood is located South of downtown Chicago, and borders the Hyde Park neighborhood on the North. After attending the... MARCH BALLOONS Anatomy of a Design. David Wright Residence Carpet. The carpet was installed after Guerrero photographed the home in 1953. It had its origins in 1926. Wright adapted the design for the carpet from a design from one of a series of 12 abstracts he created for the covers of Liberty Magazine in 1926-28... WRIGHT SEDUCTION The Love Letters of the New "Companion" of "Love Bungalow. Taliesin is open again. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, artist, eccentric, philosopher, romancer and seeker after the absolute, so christened his bizarre and beautiful country home on the Wisconsin... IH SILVER MONOGRAM Imperial Hotel. In August 2009 we were contacted by William P. Hood Jr., a flatware collector, researcher and writer. William is the author of the definitive book on 19th century Tiffany silver flatware "Tiffany Silver Flatware 1845-1905" and more than 50 articles on flatware published in "The Magazine Antiques and Silver Magazine"... WRIGHT STUDY Horner Residence was a smaller Prairie styled home designed at the height of Wright's Prairie period. The cruciform floor plan is similar in footprint to the J. J. Walser, the George Barton Residence, and the K. C. DeRhodes Residence, but with modifications. A major difference was the grade of the first level. Like the DeRhodes, only the Entry / Reception Room... VASE REPRODUCTION Originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright circa 1898. This reproduction was produced in 1992 by Historic Arts & Casting, Inc. The top is turned 45 degrees with the top and bottom overlapping and intersecting each other. According to Pfeiffer, "There is a... WRIGHT STUDY Husser Residence. In Frank Lloyd Wright's An Autobiography, he described the Husser home as "characterized to a certain extent by the Sullivanian idiom, at least in detail" (p.127). Wright designed the Husser home five years after the Winslow Residence (1894), three years after the Husser Residence (1896) and two years... LUECHAUER CLINIC (1958) Dr. Jarvis H. Luechauer Blueprints 1958. Seven of eight sheets for the Dr. Jarvis H. Luechauer Clinic Fresno, California. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959 plans were completed by William Wesley Peters and Aaron Green and dated February 18, 1960. Jarvis Henry Luechauer, April 16, 1914 - June 18, 2008... SCANDAL 1912 "Spiritual Hegira." Extraordinary Wright-Cheney Case, in Which the Principles Defied Public Opinion in Defense of a "Principal." "Forms are not sacred. The spirit alone is. There is one thing of greater importance than the home of yesterday, and that is the home of to-morrow." Thus is epitomized the... GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Set of 27 historic photographs of the  Guggenheim Museum during construction 1956-57 (1956 - S.400). According to "The Guggenheim," 2009, Hilla Rebay first approached Frank Lloyd Wright in June 1943. He immediately began conceptual...   HOTEL GENEVA POSTCARD The Geneva, Lake Geneva, Wis. Circa 1912. Frank Lloyd Wright’s original illustration for the proposed Hotel Lake Geneva in 1911. This early drawings included a proposed three story section on the East end that was never built. Illustration was exhibited at the Chicago Architectural Club at the Art Institute on May 5, 1913... LARKIN DEDICATION 1906 Larkin Co. Administration Building, Buffalo, N.Y. An Office Building of the Twenthieth Century to Accommodate 2000 Clerks Completed 1906. A booklet commemorating the opening of the Larkin Co. building in Buffalo, New York, for the dedication ceremony of the Larkin Administration Building. The front cover is heavily embossed. Administration Building. Larkin Co. Dedicated 1906. Buffalo... LIBERTY MAGAZINE Liberty Magazine Cover Designs. According to Penny Fowler, Frank Lloyd Wright designed twelve cover designs for Liberty Magazine between 1926-1928. In 1955, Wright adapted the proposed Liberty Magazine cover designs for carpets by Karastan, and... LARKIN DEMITASSE CUP Larkin Co. Demitasse Cup. Ground was broken in the Spring of 1902 for the Buffalo Pottery Company, a subsidiary of the Larkin Company. The Larkin Restaurant was located on the top floor of the Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1912, 45,000 visitors of the Larkin Factories enjoyed "wholesome and dainty refreshments". This saucer was most likely used in the. ZEEKEEPER'S WIFE Frank Lloyd Wright and the Zookeeper's wife? The Zookeeper's Wife is an account of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, keepers of the Warsaw Zoo. They were responsible for saving hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion of Poland. It was released in 2017, and filmed in Prague, Czech Republic. There is a moment in the film that pans past a large Frank Lloyd Wright Oak Park Studio... WRIGHT DESIGNED URN Reproduction Pewter Urn, Wright began experimenting with variations of the design for the Urn as early as 1894, and the design of the first designed this copper urn in the late 1890's. It was one of Wright's favorite objects. He included it in a number of drawings and projects he worked on...   ARSHILE GORKY Side Note. Arshile Gorky was one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century. I was introduced to Arshile Gorky while taking art classes in college. Encouraged to study the work of Gorky, I found his work intriguing, inspiring, animated, spontaneous, vigorous, forceful, impelling and assertive. As Gorky had schooled himself in Cezanne and Picasso, I began...

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