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Exterior – Zen Garden
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Unlike my parents, who relished the attention of living in Wright’s famous house, the McDonalds planned their landscaping to provide privacy. “Like many other owners of Wright houses who received regular visits from uninvited architecture buffs, Dr. McDonald wanted to ensure his family’s privacy in addition
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Garage & Pond
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Thirty feet beyond the end of the house sat a small building with stained glass windows and a roof matching that of the main house. “Whose house is that?” I said. “It looks like a miniature version of our new one.” “That’s our garage,” my dad
Lantern
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: “Virtually every tour I led after school hours – or on the weekends – began the same way – I stood on the hearth, index cards in hand, all 4 feet 8 inches of me beaming. I was in 3rd grade and “leading a tour,” with
Living Room Furniture
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Unlike many designers, Wright created different furniture unique to every house. “He didn’t think of furniture, as individual pieces, but as parts of a whole….Meis and Breuer designed one chair and used it forever, in any setting.” Wright’s apprentice from Taliesin, Edgar Tafel wrote. “For every
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