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Title: 50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex ISBN: 0-8109-8211-0 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 50 Favorite Rooms Review
Comment: This book is great either if you are wanting infornmation on Frank Lloyd Wright, his personal life or the works of art he created. It gives examples of his personal choices and styles. Each page includes a full page color picture of one of the rooms he designed.
It also is a good book if you are just looking for examples of interior design or aritechture. It has unique pieces and will give you great ideas!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellently arranged; quality overview of great room spaces
Comment: The first thing that struck me about this book is how well put-together it is. In "50 Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright," Diane Maddex (listed in the credits as "Project Director") has crafted a book that is clean, simple and elegant in its presentation of the architect's trademark design of personal living spaces.
If you've visited more than a few of Frank Lloyd Wright's creations, chances are they won't all be represented here. He completed hundreds of homes and buildings, which means that this book could have been entitled "250 Favorite Rooms ..." and it still would have been too thin. What you do find are superb photos which are amazingly successful in capturing the perspective and harmony of lines, space, furniture, ornamentation and even lighting. My favorite views are inside the homes, but the public spaces are interesting also. You don't have to be an architect to appreciate the mastery in Mr. Wright's designs.
The chapters are grouped by room type (e.g., living rooms, dining rooms), with each of the pictures taking up AT LEAST one full page, and supported by 20-30 lines of text describing key design aspects of the room. The photos are of the highest quality in terms of exposure, lighting and balance. In some cases, the vantage point allows for a look beyond the windows to the surrounding landscape or greenery. A nice touch, indeed. In short, if you're looking for the definitive image of a room, you'll find a bunch of them right here.
If Mr. Wright had designed a book, I think this is what he'd have come up with. I give this my highest recommendation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Seeing the Sublime from Behind Closed Doors
Comment: Most of the 5,000 plus wonderful rooms designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are not open to the public. This book gives you a chance to go where you often cannot go in any other way to see 50 of the best.
Unlike most architects, Mr. Wright designed in such a way that "the rooms inside would dictate the architecture outside." Even inside, he designed all elements of the room, including floor and wall coverings, art glass in many cases, lighting fixtures, furniture, and where everything should be located. He also specified that those who used the rooms should be limited to bringing in only certain types of objects, and for certain locations. For example, ornamental china was allowed on one ledge of the dining room in Robie House.
I have had the chance to visit many Wright homes and buildings, yet this book greatly expanded my understanding of his work.
Mr. Wright was primarily a home architect, and "the living room was the heart of the home" for him. He would use built-in benches to encourage reading, fireplaces for conversation, windows with designs to inspire contemplation, tables for informal dining and card playing, and views of nature for living more organically.
Clearly, it would be hard to outdo a Wright living room, and most of the best examples of his work in this book are living rooms. I thought the best ones were in the home and studio in Oak Park, Dana-Thomas House, Robie House, May House, Little House, Fallingwater, Taliesin West, Wingspread, Cedar Rock, R.L. Wright House, and Rayward House.
I liked his dining rooms best in the home and studio in Oak Park, Dana-Thomas House, Robie House, May House, and Boynton House.
For nooks and crannies, I liked the Oak Park studio library, and the Storer House Terrace.
Of the public spaces, my favorites were the Unity Temple Sanctuary, Coonley Playhouse, the Guggenheim Museum atrium, and the Marin County Center skylit atrium under the barrel vault.
If you ever have a chance to see any of these, be sure you take advantage of it! Robie House is now being rebuilt in Hyde Park, Illinois, but is open for tours. Final restoration is expected to be done in 2007. The Oak Park home and studio are open every day. Taliesin West is open most days. Fallingwater has an extensive schedule of being open. Unity Temple, the Guggenheim, and Marin County Center are usually open.
After you examine these wonderful living spaces, think about how your life would be improved in such more natural surroundings. How can you make where you live closer to his ideal?
Look for the most natural way to be with others!
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Title: Frank Lloyd Wright's Interiors by Thomas A. Heinz ISBN: 0517219697 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: 50 Favorite Furnishings By Frank Lloyd Wright by Diane Maddex ISBN: 0810982137 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Wright Style : Re-Creating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright by Carla Lind ISBN: 0671749595 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Frank Lloyd Wright : The Masterworks by David Larkin, Bruce B. Pfeiffer, Paul Rocheleau, Michael Freeman ISBN: 0847817156 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses (Wright at a Glance Series) by Carla Lind, Frank Lloyd Wright ISBN: 1566409977 Publisher: Pomegranate Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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