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Midway Gardens (3)
“Here at Midway Gardens painting and sculpture have regained their original place in architecture.” F. Ll. W. An Autobiography, 1932
Midway Gardens was located in Cottage Grove on 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
It was built in 1913-1914 and as we will see later was demolished in 1929. It had a total built area of 33,489 m2.
The client was Edward C. Waller, Jr.
Midway Gardens was designed to be a European-style concert garden with space for dining, drinking and performances throughout the year.
In 1929, after passing through several hands and severely affected by World War I and Prohibition, which banned drinking from January 19, 1920, to December 6, 1933, Midway Gardens closed permanently and was demolished. A testament to the solidity of Wright’s construction, the demolition process proved so difficult that it bankrupted the demolition company.
Drawings of Midway Gardens. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
The letter S is from the Storrer Catalogue. It numbers the buildings of F. Ll. Wright.
You can see the Davidson House and Midway Park https://onlybook.es/blog/wright-casa-davidson-y-midway-park-6ta-parte/
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together, each happy with the other.” F. Ll. W.
It was while he was building Midway Gardens, Chicago, Illinois (1913/24) that he learned of the brutal deaths of Mamah, her 2 sons, and 4 co-workers and the destruction of Taliesin and the almost total loss of the Wasmuth Portfolio. (5)
You can see several works including Romeo and Juliet https://onlybook.es/blog/las-obras-de-frank-lloyd-wright-parte-4-romeo-y-julieta-y-otras-obras/
Wright designed approximately 55 pieces of furniture as part of the Martin House commission. Up to 35 original pieces of furniture from the House can now be seen.
The table was reissued by Cassina between 1990 and 1999 and included in the “Cassina I Maestri” Collection, it is no longer in production. The table is made of natural cherry wood. Signed and numbered. Width 127 x height 74 x length 153 cm.
Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition in 2007 at the Portland Museum of Art. © Gordon Chibroski/Portland Press Herald/Getty Images
Q: Are you afraid of death?
A: Not really. Death is a great friend.
Q: Do you believe in your immortality?
A: Yes, in a way, I am immortal, I will be immortal. For me being young has no meaning. It is something you cannot avoid, in any way. Because being young is a quality, and if you have it, you never lose it. And when you are put in the box, that is where your immortality begins.
“Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.” F.Ll.W.
“Architecture must belong to the environment in which it is located and adorn the landscape rather than ruin it.” F.Ll.W
The DAM is an art museum located in the Denver Civic Center, with more than 70,000 works of art, making it one of the most important art museums in the United States.
The extension, the Hamilton Building, opened in 2006, is designed by Daniel Libeskind (1946).
The Edgar Lounge Chair is an homage to the Edgar Kaufmann House, the Fallingwater.
Upholstered in Wright’s favorite hues, it features cantilevered construction elements with wooden slats underneath for magazine storage.
Frank Lloyd Wright created innovative furniture designs for the Johnson Wax Administration Building.
Eighty years later, Steelcase is reviving them in a new line it calls the “F. Ll. W. Racine Collection” with some updates to work with modern equipment.
Height 83.82 cm width 54.61 depth 60.96, materials metal, upholstery, wood and paint. 1950.
Bibliography Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959, Pfeiffer and Futugawa, pp. 206-208
“Buildings, too, are children of the earth and the sun.” F.Ll.W
About Kalita Humphreys Theatre (Dallas Theatre Centre)
The Dallas Theater Center committee approached Frank Lloyd Wright to design a theater on land donated by Sylvan T. Baer along scenic Turtle Creek Boulevard.
Wright was busy with other projects, so he suggested that the committee use a plan he already had in his files, a design for a West Coast theater in 1915 that was later adapted for Hartford, Connecticut.
Neither of these theaters were built and the design was adapted for Dallas.
Construction began in 1955 and was completed four years later, nine months after Wright’s death, when construction was about a quarter complete, Taliesin Associated Architects finished the work, costing over $1,000,000 (11,350,000 today). The theater opened on December 27, 1959 with a performance of Thomas Wolfe’s Of Time and the River.
The theater is named for an actress who worked with the theater’s first director, Paul Baker. Kalita Humphreys died in a plane crash in 1954, and her parents donated $120,000 to the theater in memory of her.
The theater seats 404 people in eleven rows.
In 1967, architect W. Kelly Oliver (6) designed office and rehearsal room additions to the building.
More recently, the lobby has been expanded, although the auditorium space remains as Wright designed it.
Wright’s Special Designs for His Houses
A very rare and exceptional pair of 1950’s ‘Taliesin’ captain’s dining chairs by F. Ll. W. for the US manufacturer Heritage Henredon, 1950/59. Dimensions W 24″ x D 25″ x H 46″, seat 21″.
Carved oak frames, with Taliesin’s iconic carved geometric detailing, and yellow velvet upholstery.
Dimensions 71 x 192 x 78 cm. Taliesin 2, solid cherry and mahogany table, under one of the crossbars is the manufacturer’s mark. N 00071.
Designed by F. Ll. W. in 1925, it has been produced by Cassina since 1989 in Meda, Italy. Its structure is made of solid natural cherry wood, other finishes stained in walnut, black or natural Canaletto walnut, with a top available in two sizes. Price from € 6,315.00 (19 February 2025). Dimensions Height 71.5 width 192 depth 98.
Spindle chair from the living room of the Avery Coonley House, and his wife Queene. 281 Bloomingbank Rd. Riverside, Illinois. c. 1908/1912. Oak, microfiber upholstery (91 × 36 × 42 cm)
Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken (1878 – 1945) (7).
This elaborate Prairie-style residence, with its Coach House, Gardener’s Cottage, and accompanying gardens, marks the first time Wright used “zoned planning.” This approach involved dividing spaces according to their function, and he would use it for the rest of his career.
The entry hall, game room, and sewing room are on the ground floor, with the main dining and living areas on the second floor.
The bedrooms, guest rooms, kitchen, and service area each have their own wing.
Inspired by the flat prairie landscape, Wright employed long horizontal lines and a protruding hipped roof. Rows of art glass windows with geometric designs frame the rooms. Colored patterns on the exterior of the house foretell the types of designs Wright would later use in his “textile block” houses in the 1920s.
Changes to the changes, the original property has been divided into five properties, and the main structure has recently been restored to its original splendor.
The original residence was over 9,000 square feet and was built on a 10-acre plot. The landscape architect Jens Jensen (1860 – 1951) (8) designed the ensemble of interconnected buildings with extensive raised and sunken gardens.
Goetsch-Winckler House, located at 2410 Hulett Rd, Okemos, Michigan. Year 1940. It has been highly valued for the finishes made by Wright, its rich interior decoration makes it one of the most elegant of the series.
In the 1930s, eight professors from Michigan State University, located in the small town of East Lasing, between Ingham and Clinton counties, formed a cooperative, and bought a 24-hectare plot of land in Okemos.
Two of them, Alma Goetsch and Kathrine Winckler, asked Wright to design a community of neighbors (9).
They wanted to build seven houses and a smaller one for the caretakers, they wanted to have a farm, a vegetable garden and a fish pond.
The project proposed access to the houses by a U-shaped path around the farm, each house would be built at the end of a long path, each would have its own private garden.
The general lines would be flat roofs, horizontal lines and simple volumes. But the banks did not want to give financing to “unconventional” projects. Only the Goetsch-Winckler House was built, but on another site.
More information about the project at https://onlybook.es/blog/las-obras-de-frank-lloyd-wright-parte-2/
Years later, after World War II, another member of the cooperative, Erling P. Brauner, built a Wright project less than 2.5 km from the Goetsch-Winckler house.
It is one of Wright’s oldest so-called “Usonian-line” houses. The carriage house, living room, dining room, kitchen and bedrooms, separated by a bathroom, were designed within rectangular spaces, and were located one after the other.
The living room occupies most of the house, with a fireplace at one end facing a work area, the bedrooms open onto the gallery.
Like all of his houses, this one seems spatially larger despite its small size. This is because the furniture and shelves are incorporated into the structure of the house. This is how Wright solved the dining table, the seat by the fireplace, the bar, the desk and the bookshelf in the work area.
Goetsh-Winckler House, Video
Notas
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The letter S is for Storrer Catalog, which lists the buildings and works of F. Ll. Wright
“William Allin Storrer, a scholar who has written about Wright for a quarter-century, has produced the first truly comprehensive catalog.” –Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review
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Blog Arq. Alejandro Esteban Pulópulo. Graphic Representation FADU UNBA
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Kelly Oliver’s cousin Carolyn had connections to Wright, and after a letter to Taliesin from Carolyn to Mrs. Wright, Oliver received an invitation to interview at Taliesin. Wright was in Europe as her daughter was studying dance with Gurdjieff, and upon her return they met. Oliver recalls, “Mr. Wright asked me a lot of questions: What was my background? and Why am I interested in architecture? And finally, after I had been there for about 30 minutes, he said, ‘Well, since you’ve been here so long, you might as well stay. ’ So that was my interview and I just stayed.”
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George Mann Niedecken (1878 – 1945) was an American Prairie style furniture designer and interior architect from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who collaborated with architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Marion Mahony Griffin.
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Throughout his long career, Jens Jensen worked with many renowned architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Maher, Albert Kahn, and Benjamin H. Marshall.
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Caroline Knight, Frank Lloyd Wright, p. 158, Parragón publishing house, distributed by ASPPAN, 2004.
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