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a large brown house sitting on top of a lush green field next to a forest

Wright was 22 years old and newly married when he borrowed $5,000 from his employer, Louis Sullivan, to build a home for his future family.

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a large house with lots of windows in the front yard and trees on both sides

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio is a historic house and design studio in Oak Park, which is a suburb of Chicago. The house was designed and owned by Wright, first built in 1889 and then added to over the years. The home is furnished with original Wright-designed furniture and textiles. It has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Wright lived there with his with his wife Catherine and their six children. ⁠

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a living room filled with furniture and lots of windows on top of it's walls

If Taliesin is an “architectural autobiography,” then sleeping in the home made me reevaluate the American legend

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the floor plan for an old house with lots of rooms and floors, including a second story

Free of restrictions and limitations by clients, this what these famous architects came up with as an image for a “home”.

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a man standing in front of a large brick building with tall windows on it's sides

The estate of arguably America’s most famous architect is tied up in a convoluted web of foundations, conservancies, and a trust—one that outlines the state of preservation today.

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the inside of a building with stained glass windows and wood paneling on the ceiling

The Martin House Restoration Corporation has announced that one of Martin House’s missing living room skylights has been replaced with a reproduction that might have fooled Frank Lloyd Wright himself. The skylight, combined with a nearby transom window and a row of “wisteria” style doors, creates a sort of “light screen” that Wright incorporated into his architecture so as to break up traditional window schematics with flooding light that doused the room in iridescent colors. Despite the…

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a room that has some lights on the ceiling and stairs in front of an open window

View Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiors from the Studio and Unity Temple (7 works) (1983) By Dubroff Don; Dye coupler; 19 x 15 inches (48.3 x 38.1 cm); Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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a stained glass window with many different colors

On a recent visit to Oak Park, the leafy suburb just outside Chicago, I took a guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright home, built in 1889 with several expansions and renovations over the years, incl…

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the inside of a building with many windows and wooden trimmings on the walls

As Wright worked to define his vision for American architecture and design, the currents of Modernism coursed at home and abroad. Architects and designers in Europe, Great Britain and America integrated exterior and interior design principles to achieve a level of visual unity never seen before. From paintings and prints to light fixtures and furniture, the Modern style was pervasive, synthesizing every aspect of design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a “total work of art.”

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