Interior of the Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1904 (demolished in 1950).
Look at this office. Innovative for the time, yes. But do you think anything creative was ever produced in this space? No way!
Fun fact: Wright designed some of the desks so that the chairs were immovable - just screwed right onto the desk. Talk about being chained to your work. Those people could have used access to a yoga dungeon for sure.
For some really great Larkin ephemera click HERE
Raise your hand if you know where this room is located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In all the times I’ve taken some special friends on one of my personal-period-rooms-of-the-Met guided tours (I really do those, wanna go?), I have found a lot of people are not aware of this wonderful room by Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s the living room from the Little House, originally in Wayzata, Minnesota, 1912–14. When the house was demolished in 1972, the living room was disassembled and moved here, where it is now on permanent display.
When you step inside, you are completely transported through time and space into a total environment. You are enveloped in quietness, and in FLW himself, as he designed every last element of the room. Possibly even the pottery (I think?). The room feels like a rhythmic, horizontal expanse of warm color, texture and wood, and would have been filled with light, as two sides of the rooms are curtain walls of classic FLW stained glass. It’s an incredibly peaceful space amidst the hum of the museum crowds. It’s not like, a secret or anything, but I’ve never been in there with more than two other people checking it out at the same time. I only wish I could sit on the furniture and relax awhile with a book. As you can see above, the sofa he designed with tabletop arms was pretty much built for that.
P.S. If you want to find this room, it’s on the first floor in the American Wing, near the back of the grand pavilion, toward the far right side.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water lego set.
Love the idea of this Lego Architecture series.
I do too, but then I saw how tiny this, and the set for the Guggenheim, were in real life, and I was super let down. The photos make them look huge. Way huge. They are seriously tiny. I mean, I’m not expecting like, full scale or anything, but if I am going to geek out on building a model of a FLW design in Lego, I want to geek out on building a model of a FLW design in Lego. I had a Lego airport when I was a kid. Lets not pussyfoot around with our FLWs in Lego. You know?
You and 8 friends can stay at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater for only $1,195. Who’s in?
OK, that’s it, forget going to jail, I’m going legit. This sounds like the perfect winter getaway to the woods - have you seen the massive fireplace in this joint?
In my last post, I mentioned another nearby house of his in Pennsylvania; it is called Kentuck Knob. It was commissioned by friends of the owners of Fallingwater who were obviously insanely jealous. I would be. Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built Kentuck Knob when he was 86, by the way. He said he could “shake it out of his sleeve at will” never even setting foot on the site, except for a short visit during the construction phase. You bet your ass he could. It would be one of the last homes Wright completed.
UPDATE: NO ROOM! I’m going to plan a private trip instead. Found out that there is another one of his houses nearby, and hotels are CHEAP, so, could make a fun weekend out of it with friends rather than being stuck on a bus with what could very likely be 50-75% annoying people from my school.
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Student Council announced a weekend field trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. I just requested to reserve a seat, I hope there will be room. I also hope that I will find a way to secretly sleep in the house overnight without getting arrested or suspended. I could just sleep on this soft shaggy rug in the photo below, I’m sure it’d be fine. And what is that, a fur blanket in the background? FLW slumber party is so on.
