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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... |
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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. |
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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... |
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WRIGHT SLIDESHOW |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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
introducing... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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COONLEY WINDOW (1911) |
Two original Transom windows
for the Avery Coonley Coach House, Designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright in 1911. Wright created a different
design for all four Coonley buildings, and for some
buildings, multiple designs. We were able to
identify two different designs for the Coach House.
The original plan for the building was as a garage
and stable including a horse stable... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,.. |
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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... |
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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)... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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
... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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"... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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....
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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