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“It’s a miracle that almost all of Frank Lloyd Wright’s drawings have been preserved, especially considering that his successive houses suffered three fires.”
by chasil 4y ago
“It’s a miracle that almost all of Frank Lloyd Wright’s drawings have been preserved, especially considering that his successive houses suffered three fires.”
One of these fires is particularly notorious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamah_Borthwick#Murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamah_Borthwick#Murder
- hammock 4y agoI once worked in what was Frank Lloyd Wright's old offices. The board room in the back of the building had his original safes where he kept his drawings still in the wall, and you could check them out. Always thought that was cool
- ProllyInfamous 4y agoMy sister-in-law lives in a FLW house (built around a tree, now deceased) and it always surprises me how structurally un-fireproof his building designs are (aside from all the concrete). His disciple Fay built Thorncrown Chapel, which IMHO is the most-beautiful structure any human has ever designed (even in its simplicity).