The Next Hundred Years – Video
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GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: “Which Christmas cookies should we make this year?” my mom asked as she pulled down her small, wooden recipe box. She carefully slid out the three-inch-by-five-inch index cards filed in the box after the “cookies” divider tab. Kurt and I huddled around our huge butcher-block kitchen
Glass Cabinet
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: All 220 zinc came windows were decorated with patterns unique to the Boynton house. (Zinc came is the metal that holds together stained glass panels in a window. Zinc provides more stiffness than the lead came used in leaded-glass windows.)
Sunroom
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: Wright wanted windows to open freely and outward, allowing greater access to the outdoors. With typical Wright bravado he continued, “If it [the casement window] had not existed I should have invented it.” The windows in the Boynton house were designed to wrap around both stories,
Dining Room
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: As an adult, I learned to scorn Wright’s preference for form over function. Flat roofs abutting stained glass clerestory windows in the dining room caused continuous leaks when the snow piled up and melted against the windows warmed by the furnace.
Dining Room Cabinets
GROWING UP IN A FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE, Excerpt: When my mother first saw the extensive cabinetry in the living room, dining room and butler’s pantry she wondered out loud how she would ever fill all of the spaces.
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