VERY impressed. Saw there were 43 buildings by Wright in Wisconsin, which makes sense since one of his bases, Taliesin, was in Wisconsin on 800 acres.
Every tour I’ve taken is replete with anecdotes of how difficult it was to live in a living art sculpture. Falling Waters is having major structural problems right now.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Fallingwater has a problem — with falling water
Ours had a flat roof, and after a fire the owners replaced it with a pitched, gable, shingled roof. Every bedroom had built in closets, dressers, and all interior dividing walls were glass block. The kitchen was all appliances that would swing up from the countertop when you pushed a button. The ceilings were hardwood tounge and groove, which was weird because the floors were carpeted or tile. All glass slanted in the front facing the street. It was normal to have three feet of snow piled up in front of the glass. Whirlpool-Jacuzzi tubs, and the entire garage exterior walls were glass blocks 8×8”, same as interior dividing walls.
I once read an article about a FLW house in the southern Mississippi delta. A beautiful appearance, but he experimented with using no footings. Crack, crack, crack. And he edged the fireplace with lights and glazed them in place. To change a lightbulb, the owners had to break the glazing. Personally, I prefer Greene and Greene from California. Same era.
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I have a unique jigsaw puzzle I intend to put together sometime.
The manufacturer printed on both sides of the material before cutting the pieces on it.
On one side is a photo image of the Falling Waters house.
On the other side is the blueprints of the house.
I will glue it after I put it together and frame it with glass on both sides, so it can be hung with either of the two images facing out.