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Book: Building a Legacy: The Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio
Stanley Abercrombie -- Interior Design, 10/8/2001 4:15:00 PM
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Building a Legacy: The Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio |
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San Francisco: Pomegranate by edited by Zarine Weil, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust 150 pages, many color and b&w illustrations; $30 paperbound Buy at Amazon.com for $21.00. |
| The story of the construction, expansions, and alterations of Frank Lloyd Wright's own house and studio in the Chicago suburb or Oak Park between 1889 and 1909 is complex. Equally complex is the story of its restoration to its 1909 state by what is now called the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust (with substantial funding from Steelcase) between 1974 and 1987. Both stories are made clear in this new book, along with both archival and new photography and drawings. There is an introduction by Eric Lloyd Wright and and afterword by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, both grandchildren of the architect and both now architects themselves. Most expressive of the house's importance, however, is a brief quotation from Arthur Drexler, former director of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art: "No litarate person can stand in those rooms without seeing ghosts, without hearing the arguments, the laughter, the ideas about how to live and build and make art, that are now a part of everyone's history." | |
Interior Design Magazine, July, 2001
Classification: Residential Design
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