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The home for David and Violet Gustafson (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, Don Erickson) will soon be a thing of the past. One more work of Organic Architecture lost to the bulldozer. There is a sale of the home's estate happening this weekend at 1055 Starr, in Winnetka, IL. It's your chance to get one last look. Follow the link for info. If anyone goes, please forward photos to us to post...
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is poised to accept an exquisite gift from Pittsburgh to help celebrate the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright landmark building in New York.
The clock is ticking down on the fate of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, IL. Take some time to sign this petition to make your voice heard against this architectural masterpiece from being closed on October 1, 2008. Follow the link and make a difference!Photo courtesy of the Historic Sites Commission of Springfield, Illinois
Here's a great article discussing the wonder that is the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler (with a little help from Frank Lloyd Wright on the drafting board). Check it out here.
The Phoenix Coyotes have teamed up with Arizona Dodge Dealers and 93.3 KDKB to offer fans the exciting opportunity to win an all-new 2008 Dodge Challenger during the upcoming 2008-09 hockey season. “We’re excited to partner with the Arizona Dodge Dealers on the ‘Dodge Challenger Challenge’ that will give eight lucky fans the chance to qualify [...]
I’ve been reading Thomas A. Heinz’s Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide, a book that describes every surviving building designed by Wright, tells you how to get to them, and assigns each one a five-star rating. The Field Guide also includes a brief discussion of the relative accessibility of each building. In most cases it’s a single [...]
A Frank Lloyd Wright hotel room is a fun experience. Especially since the room was originally designed as a corporate office. This is the fun that awaits in Bartlesville at the Price Tower, a weekend getaway that I highly recommend. Michael and I just spent our anniversary there on the affordable romantic weekend package. . . . [Read the rest of my HNOKC column here]
Our friend Kevin tipped us on a great photo slide show. The images by Robin Hill of the Frank Lloyd Wright Florida Southern College are beautiful. I highly recommend checking it out. Thanks Kevin! Image copyright Robin Hill
Who would turn down $9 million dollars? Apparently, the city council of Mason City, Iowa. This story could spell bad news for the restoration efforts of the last surviving Frank Lloyd Wright-desgined hotel in the world. Read more about the story by following the link. Photo courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Robin Hill has an amazing eye for taking photos that will practically bring you to tears with their beauty. For proof, check out Robin's wonderful collection of black and white and color photos of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL. Enjoy!Photo copyright Robin Hill
The economic picture over here in “flyover country” isn’t very rosy. The overall unemployment rate in Illinois is 7.3%, but there are sections of the state where the rate is even higher. The State of Illinois is laying off 450 of its employees, and closing 11 state parks and 12 historic sites (including the Frank [...]
Doing a Google search for "Fall Foliage" gives you the word "Vermont" a lot. At TripCart, we would all like a nice weekend off to enjoy the Vermont Fall Foliage, but realize that not all our readers want to fill...
I went to check out the exhibit "Rising From the Ashes: Furniture From Lost Trees" at the Morten Arboretum over the weekend. There was lots of really interesting stuff, including a piece by Chicago area woodworker, Lloyd Natof--who also happens to be a descendant of Frank Lloyd Wright. Check out more info on Lloyd's work here and the show here.Images copyright Lloyd Natof
Main living room images of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous "Fallingwater" home. Read how, as much as possible, he used the existing land and materials to keep the feel of intrusion as little as possible. In some cases building around existing rock and incorporating these pieces as functional interior design. Go /pictures-of-fallingwater.html"> here for a complete pictorial overview of the whole structure....
It was a sad day when the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was demolished. Former Wright apprentice, Edgar Tafel, delivers a lecture about the destruction of this architectural legend in this YouTube video.Image copyright Michael Underwood
