| Description |
336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An overview of the life and work. Nature as inspiration and muse ; Gesamtkunstwerk: architecture as a complete work of art ; Influences ; Wright's redefinition of space -- Oak Park home and studio -- Prairie houses. Prairie house furnishings ; Art glass ; Prairie-era masterworks ; Susan Lawrence Dana House ; Darwin D. Martin House ; Avery and Queene Coonley House ; Frederick C. Robie House ; Meyer May House -- Decorative interlude. Midway Gardens ; New Imperial Hotel ; Aline Barnsdall House, Hollyhock House ; The textile-block houses ; Mabel and Charles Ennis House ; Harriet and Samuel Freeman House ; John Storer House -- The tumultuous years of eclipse and return, 1922-1940. Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann House, Fallingwater ; Herbert F. Johnson House, Wingspread ; The Usonian house ; Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House ; Variations on the Usonian house -- The celebrated final years, 1945-1959. Benjamin Adelman House ; Gerald Tonkens House ; Theodore and Betty Pappas House ; William Tracy House ; Toufic Kalil House ; Dorothy Turkel House ; William and Mary Palmer House ; David and Gladys Wright House ; The quintessential Usonian, exhibition house -- The architect's homes: Taliesin and Taliesin West. |
| Summary |
Wright was an early proponent of "total design." Unsatisfied with what was available in designing a given space or home, he invented what was needed, developing a language of architectural detail and styling that is unique and which extended to the tables, bookcases, easy chairs, sofas, and cabinets; to rugs and murals; to stonework; to stained glass "light screens," which served as windows and doors and room partitions; to lighting. |
| Subject |
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
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Interior architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Interior decoration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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ARCHITECTURE / General.
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| Added Author |
Weintraub, Alan, photographer.
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Hanks, David A., author of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Frank Lloyd Wright, the rooms |
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Rooms : interior and decorative arts |
| ISBN |
9780847843428 hbk. |
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0847843424 hbk. |
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