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:: Monday, April 12, 2004 ::
Frank Lloyd Wright home in Illinois taken apart and shipped to Pennsylvania AP
The project took a crew of four Pennsylvania carpenters and a crane operator two weeks to complete. It involved tearing down and throwing away such common materials as shingles and carpet that could be easily duplicated and keeping and taking to Pennsylvania whatever was unique to Wright's design.
That means loading onto trucks such historically significant items as Philippine mahogany paneling and windowsills, cabinetry and cinder blocks cut at an angle that defined the base of the house.
Now Baacke hopes he can make the house a place tourists will want to visit and compliment three other Wright works _ including the famed Fallingwater _ in the region.
Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy: http://www.savewright.org/
The Wright stuff By MELODY PARKER, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier Online
Wright named the home 'Samara,' for the winged seeds nestled in the site's evergreen trees, and the abstract motif can be seen throughout the structure and furnishings. In fact, Wright was involved in every aspect of the project, including designing furniture, china, linens and rugs. He invented TV tables as works of art and built a cabinet that featured a mechanism to raise the TV for viewing.
Many details would not be finished until the Christians had the financial means, time or found craftsmen willing to do the work according to Wright's specifications. Brickwork for the entrance, driveway and lanai wall continued from 1958 through 1962, and clerestory panels featuring the Samara abstraction were installed in 1962. The unique copper fascia was added in 1991. Wright had challenged Christian, a chemist, to develop a chemical process to turn the copper robin-egg blue overnight.
'I accepted the challenge and was able to do it, the exact color he wanted. I haven't divulged the formula,' Christian says. 'Wright never knew I'd accomplished it.'
Wright was 88 when he finished the Samara plans; he died in 1959.------------------------------------------- posted 8:08 AM :: reference link ::
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