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Frank Lloyd Wright might be one of the greatest architects of all time, but his works aren’t immune to bulldozers
Originally built in 1952, the Masson House in Pleasantville, New York recently received an addition and renovation by Carol Kurth Architects that honors Frank Lloyd Wright's intent and vision. Tagged: Exterior, Brick Siding Material, House Building Type, Wood Siding Material, and Flat RoofLine.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Spoke Art gallery team up to present a pop-up art exhibition called Frank Lloyd Wright: Timeless.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Spoke Art gallery team up to present a pop-up art exhibition called Frank Lloyd Wright: Timeless.
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“It has served well as a house, yet has always been more than that, a work of art beyond any ordinary measure of excellence.”
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Stained glass by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is the realization of a dream for famed architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright.
ENGLISH “El gran acto final de Wright, el Museo Solomon R. Guggenheim de Nueva York es un regalo de pura arquitectura -o más bien de ...
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Don’t tell the architectural students with six figures of debt, but that education of theirs might not be entirely necessary—especially when one looks at the ranks of famous architectural dropouts and autodidacts. These accomplished designers either didn’t complete their formal...
This Frank Lloyd Wright house is among the few houses to have been relocated. Originally situated on the bank of the Millstone River in Millstone, New Jersey, it now resides all the way over in Arkansas.
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Each time I teach a lesson it gets a little better. It is always an opportunity for me to fine tune how I deliver the lesson which, in turn results in a richer learning experience for the students. When I teach this Charley Harper lesson I really want the students to understand how Harper used shapes. He took simple, geometric shapes, disassembled them and reassembled them to create new shapes that represented many different animals and insects. It is my hope that the students will learn how to do this as a result of doing this project. The thing that blows my mind about his work is that his designs have a realistic look to them even though they are created with the simple shapes he started with. Here is a link to the post about the project last year. "When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I don’t see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe." -Charley Harper We start by looking at a number of paintings and prints by Charley Harper, who was a Cincinnatian. Next, the students decide on an animal they would like to create, Harper style. They gather some colors of construction paper and trace and cut out shapes. One requirement is that they must use a circle or part of a circle. Charley Harper used many circles in his art work! Previously during this project I didn't see as much experimentation with the placement of shapes and use of shapes as I had wanted to. The results were not as "Harper-esque" as I would have liked them to be. This time around I encouraged the students to experiment with the arrangement of the shapes and look at photos of the animal they were making, and simplify the animal into geometric shapes. The students use stencils to trace, and I added a larger circle stencil to our collection. I demonstrated how to get a half circle by tracing a circle, cutting it out and folding it in half and then cutting on the crease. Fold a half circle in half and cut that in half. For eyes or tiny circles the students used a hole punch. On the first day the students work on the animal designs I do not have glue on the tables, just because I want them to take some time to try a variety of arrangements of their shapes before they start gluing. The next time the students come to art I have glue on the tables and when they are satisfied with what they have they can start gluing. After the animal is glued down to a background the students draw details in marker. Below are some in-progress designs by this year's 5th graders. When they are complete I will show the finished product. The students will identify the ecosystem of the animal and draw a background that suggests that ecosystem. (Science integration!!!) Do you teach any lessons on Charley Harper? What would you do to improve this project? I would love to read your comments so be sure to post in the comment section below! Next post I will share with you our visiting artist who played with fire and captivated every one of my 6th graders!
The drawing room of a friend's apartment in the Pulitzer mansion, as decorated for him by Natalie Davenport of McMillen, Inc. in the 1960's I continue to rummage through my old clip files, revisiting favorite sites, remembering old friends. Yesterday, I found one about a singular apartment in New York's Pulitzer mansion, created by a kind friend many years ago. While at Yale, he had considered studying architecture, but felt he lacked the math--- he was passionate about houses and decoration---as well as music, but that is outside the scope of this post. Throughout his lifetime, he made many contractors, real estate brokers, architects and decorators very happy. I believe that there were over 30 houses and apartments over the years, usually two at a time. The decorating firm of McMillen alone handled 17 commissions for him. There were at least five by the brilliant modernist master Ben Baldwin. Main Hall of the Hoyt cottage in Southampton He had been brought up in grand surroundings. In summer, his parents occupied the palatially scaled former Hoyt estate in Southampton, Winters vacations were spent in Palm Beach. His father, to make work for the unemployed during the depression, had bought the Tiffany Mansion on Madison Avenue, and demolished it in favor of an elegant apartment building, the first built in New York since the crash of '29, and and also considered the last great pre-war building. The architects were Rosario Candela and Mott Schmidt, and the family occupied a 21 room duplex on the top floors. It was during this process that his passion for his surroundings were formed. After his parents died, he inherited a large collection of fine English portraits and Georgian furniture typical of the rich Anglophiliiac taste of the day. The collection, even after division with two siblings, amply furnished his apartments in New York, including a handsome duplex on Fifth Avenue just downstairs from a young couple named Von Bulow. His parent's Romney portrait, as seen in the dining room of his former wife's apartment on Park Avenue, also by McMillen After a divorce, his parent's Gainsboroughs, Romneys and Raeburns went to his former wife's apartment on Park Avenue, and our friend, giving outlet to his taste for something French, bought an apartment formed from the former soundproofed bedroom suite of Joseph Pulitzer, on the second floor of the publisher's former mansion by McKim, Mead, & White on East 73rd St. Measuring 26 x 36, the beautifully proportioned main room was what particularly caught our friend's eye, large enough for his Boesendorfer grand, and for entertaining for the various good causes he supported. The mezzanine bedroom in the Pulitzer house apartment, as done for our friend by McMillen (top), and for the next owner by Denning & Fourcade (bottom)Finding the McKim, Mead and White interior not to his taste, he commissioned his decorator, Natalie Davenport of McMillen, to find an 18th century boiserie in France. Once located, it was brought to this country, along with French craftsman to install it. Then the fun of furnishing began. These rooms were as far from the age of Aquarius, then dawning, as the best upholsterers and painters in New York could make them. When finished, it was the ne plus ultra of the rich taste of the era, recalling the apartment, also by McMillen, for the Henry Fords, and the Wrightsman rooms at the Metropolitan Museum, which were then being decorated by Jansen of Paris, who also supplied many of the modern furnishing pieces used in this commission. The lacquer bed (from McMillen Website) The octagon room, as decorated for our friend by McMillen, above, and Denning and Fourcade's version for the new owner, belowThe octagonal room was hung with silk of an indescribable shade of pale peach, and was centered on the most extraordinary lacquered bed imaginable, supposedly made for the Brighton Pavilion, an attribution shared with almost all Chinoiserie furniture of the early 19th century. His parent's Romney, as seen two or three moves later in our friend's new apartment by Benjamin Baldwin Needless to say, our friend grew architecturally restless, leaving the Pulitzer apartment for awhile, trying out two modern apartments on 5th Avenue, a summer house in Connecticut, another in Maine, a small chateau in France, then moved back to the Pulitzer House apartment which he'd kept through it all. He then resolutely switched to modern, eventually winding up in a sublimely reductionist apartment nearby, with interiors not by McMillen, but by modernist master Benjamin Baldwin. Here, after his former wife's death, his parent's English portraits also came to roost. The library of the new apartment. Two more moves later, the Cleve Gray was taken to a new summer house in Maine. The story of the Louis XVI drawing room doesn't end here, however, nor does that of the bed. The Pulitzer house apartment changed hands, and the new owner, also a philanthropist and arts patron, desiring something cosier, brought in Denning and Fourcade, who brought in their signature mix of densely patterned rich fabrics, and, while keeping the McMillen curtains, refashioned it as an interior in Le Style Rothschild, redolent of the fin de siecle. The former bedroom, now a dining room, was a particular horror. The Drawing Room, McMillen version New owner, same old curtains--the Pulitzer House drawing room in its Denning & Fourcade drag.After a few years, the new owner wearied of this heavy opulence (I myself would last about 3.2 seconds in a Denning & Fourcade interior before I'd have to be taken, screaming, to a monastic retreat to sooth my shattered nerves). In 1986, Patrick Naggar was called in, degilded the boisierie, hung new curtains, and gave the room a luxe French Moderne touch. The drawing room, in its post Denning and Fourcade mode. The chandelier remains the same As for the Prince Regent's lacquer bed, it followed our friend, sans canopy due to lower ceilings, to a country house in Connecticut, and another apartment on Fifth Avenue, before being sold to another royal, Mario Buatta, the Prince of Chintz, who I believe sleeps in it to this day. Mario Buatta, at work in the lacquer bed, de-accessioned by our friend. Illustrations: All McMillen photos, from 'The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators' Denning & Fourcade and Patrick Naggar Drawing room photos, Edgar De Eviva & Lizzie Himmel, New York Times Magazine, January 31st, 1988 Denning & Fourcade Bedroom and Dining Room, New York Magazine, n.d. Mario Buatta Bed Sketch, Konstantin Kakanias for the New York Times. Baldwin decorated apartment, Architectural Digest by Peter Vitale, September 1979. Hoyt Villa Hall, Architectural Review
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright working at a drafting table.
Edgar Kaufmann, hombre de negocios de Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), poseía varias cabañas cerca de una cascada en una zona rural a 80 km de la ciudad. El señor Kaufmann contactó con Frank Lloyd Wright…
