tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post5411773680817925750..comments2023-08-12T03:19:22.676-07:00Comments on Corbu's Cave: Wright This WayScott Watermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811055807138445326noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post-62452279724996361292015-04-15T07:38:26.888-07:002015-04-15T07:38:26.888-07:00Thanks Lynne! Yeah I knew about the stain glass, b...Thanks Lynne! Yeah I knew about the stain glass, bas-relief, and other decorative proclivities of Wright but was not aware of his inclusion of murals. It makes the case for this blog, that murals belong with architecture.Scott Watermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811055807138445326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post-76101142907146583692015-04-13T09:49:38.538-07:002015-04-13T09:49:38.538-07:00what a great post! I love the murals and the use ...what a great post! I love the murals and the use of gold in them, and I love that the art is designed into the architecture. (I also studied to be an architect but wound up in the site-specific art thing.) <br /><br />Mark-- I recall that documentary too and thinking, "oh they always say something is 19th century if it happened before WWI." I may have audibly snorted as well. Lynne Rutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03861049506323014982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post-43178213925979549442015-04-10T06:02:14.416-07:002015-04-10T06:02:14.416-07:00I believe I know Alan Weintraub's photographs ...I believe I know Alan Weintraub's photographs of your S.F. place. If they are the same ones that you posted and which also appeared in magazine format, I saved the pdf. They made me delve further and further into your blog and I spent a full evening happily absorbed in Waterman World.Mark D. Ruffnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09241533547309049140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post-31206466185014625632015-04-09T09:42:04.902-07:002015-04-09T09:42:04.902-07:00Hi Mark,
A room? Actually a free standing structu...Hi Mark,<br /><br />A room? Actually a free standing structure that you had to spend a certain amount of time in. A month? Something like that. Sleep in it anyway.<br /><br />Yes, I decided not to get into the furniture which is sculptural but by and large notoriously un-ergonomic.Still given more years he might have evolved on that too since his architecture went through such dramatic changes.<br /><br />Has it been 20 years? Yes, he was practically washed-up. The creation of a school saved him financially and revived his career.<br /><br />Btw Alan Weintraub who photographed my place in S.F. years ago has become perhaps the preeminent photographer of Wrights work with several titles to his credit. Before the trip to Chicago I contacted him and he said his favorite work is the George Sturges House which is owned by Jack Larson (known for playing Jimmy Olsen in Superman TV series).Scott Watermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811055807138445326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201502013395241313.post-5847823441341608962015-04-09T08:47:41.020-07:002015-04-09T08:47:41.020-07:00I find the necessity of building one's own roo...I find the necessity of building one's own room intriguing on several levels. Certainly Wright or his teaching successors would quickly have seen what they had to work with, And your posting has made me wonder what I would have built as a young man, and what I would build today. Hhmmm. While I am a fan of FLW's architecture, I would have consigned his furniture to storage. It seems to me that he saw the furniture as an extension of his architecture, without regard to actual comfort.<br /><br />There was a great Wright documentary on PBS about 20 years ago. Possibly the most amazing fact from it was that in the early years of the 20th century, Wright was viewed as a 19th century architect, and all washed up.Mark D. Ruffnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09241533547309049140noreply@blogger.com