Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect: 12 (Tiny Folio) - Hardcover

Smith, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789202271 ISBN 13: 9780789202277

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 2022

Synopsis

This diminutive survey features all aspects of Wright's art, from lowslung Prairie houses to the dramatic, seminal Fallingwater, to larger projects such as his two homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, culminating in that icon of modernism, New York's Guggenheim Museum. This satisfying volume is complete with drawings and rarely seen works from Wright's own Asian art collection.

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Review:

"Based on sound scholarship . . . set[s] forth Wright's ideas about buildings, people, nature and their interaction. . . . Warm, radiant pictures of his famous interiors will especially appeal to decorators. . . . All the pictures are of the highest quality." —Roanoke Times, 10/18/98

From the Back Cover:

In this new study, Wright scholar Kathryn Smith explores the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work: from office desks and chairs to his first residential commissions, from magazine cover designs to major public buildings. The concise text and brilliant color photographs chart Wright's entire career, beginning with his apprenticeship to Adler and Sullivan before the turn of the century. Readers witness the Prairie period, Wright's years in Japan and California, his major designs of the late 1920s and 1930s, his Usonian houses, and the monumental late works of his last decades. Smith shows examples of Wright's drawings, furniture, and decorative arts, too, supplementing our understanding of Wright's aesthetic. The book concludes with a glimpse at the architect's seldom-seen collection of Asian art, which once comprised tens of thousands of pieces - a source of much inspiration and edification for the architect and his students, and a key to understanding Wright's views on art and nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0789202271
• ISBN 13: 9780789202277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288