Frank Lloyd Wright - COLLECTING DESIGN

[@stevendornbusch9240]

Highly original content! No repeated tropes. Pictured examples and thoughtful analysis leads to all sorts of comparisons with other designers. There are so many briefly associated with FLW over his long career, for instance a far younger John Lautner, or a youthful Rudolf Schindler (FLW's supervising architect in LA) or Irving Gill, the pioneer Southern CA modernist, ALSO employed by Adler & Sullivan.

[@magicknight13]

Thank you for mentioning all this great insight! I was just thinking about John Lautner! If you haven't read that Alan Hess great book Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture I bet you'd love it 😊

[@magicknight13]

Thank you so much for uploading this!! ❤

[@abcdefg407]

Just to know him is honored. He is definitely an all exclusive designer. I will be able to purchase one of his homes one day.

[@kplante7881]

Fantastic... Great information. Thanks for sharing.

[@llaroque211]

Interesting designs, very forward thinking for the times.

[@DONALDBERMENT]

Recently on March 10 2018 on a blog radio program in search of fatherhood hosted by Diane Sears, when I spoke of Frank Lloyd Wright as a mentor, Diane asked me when and how I met Frank Lloyd Wright. My response was that he was a mentor not in the literal sense, but socially and spiritually by the work he left behind as teachings for the rest of humankind.

[@niknabeelah7084]

I guess his furniture really fits his house. Them being comfortable is quite a surprise.

[@RJCooper2]

Thank you

[@carldurrell9943]

I ❤️ Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture and his designs of Furniture which both are works of Great 🇺🇸Art in there own right but feel the Furniture is part of the Architecture of the whole building and to remove it is like rape, like ripping the Heart out of the beautiful body. Frank Lloyd Wright was an Architect way a head of his time.

[@shabbysnubtide3339]

The reason that FLR furniture is often missing is that it was art and not furniture. It was often torture to sit on and impractical to use - in fact when FLR built his own house in Wisconsin he didn’t use his chairs, he bought furniture from Marshall Fields in Chicago.

[@babalon7778]

My housemate's parents almost bought Robie house and I'm dying right now, oh man, what could have been...

[@Padraigcoelfir]

The lady has amazing legs I must say. But how was she sat? I mean there is crossed leg and crossed legs...

[@susanharris5926]

Shame the interior pieces have left the houses they were designed for.

[@marquamfurniture]

The moderator/facilitator would be benefit from fewer collagen lip injections. Really distracting.

John C Have a heart. Take a closer look, she has hit the wall.

[@greatmustis]

actually he was a very great achitect but you can't find his furniture easily, his chairs or couches were very uncomfortable, and they had very low sense of refinement, mies van der rohe, alvar aalto or le corbusier inmortalized their furniture, but you can't buy a wright's chair easily because they were not so good....

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

Not true at all. I own a FLLW house, and the original furniture included is extremely comfortable and ergonomic. As far as refinement, for the Usonian houses that were built for modest people of modest means, the furniture was purposely deigned and built simply to be as economic as possible.

[@stuglenn1112]

FLW was the PT Barnum of architecture. The narrators of this video prove Frank's and PT's old adage that there's a sucker born every minute.

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

The narrators here are the former worldwide Head of Christie’s 20th Century Decorative Arts Department for 20 years, a university Professor Emeritus of Design History, and The Associate Curator of 20th-century Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (amongst others). Maybe to see a sucker you might try looking in the mirror.

[@stuglenn1112]

@@JamesSmithKZbin Yea, all that and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds.

[@stuglenn1112]

@@JamesSmithKZbin But let's not talk about that. Let's talk about post tension anchor repairs required on the cantilevers at Falling-Waters that were needed to keep it from, well.. falling into the water due to poor engineering. Let's talk about the dismal engineering failures of the concrete block Mayan style houses in LA. Let's talk about the house that collapsed during construction due to poor engineering. Let's talk about paying more than Harvard's tuition to be one of his "apprentices" and then having to live in a hovel and perform menial labor. Finally on a personal note let's talk about dumping a wife and six kids to run off with a client's wife. On second thought never mind, you just keep on being a fan boy of FLW.

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

@@stuglenn1112 Why so so angry, poor baby?

[@JamesSmithYoutube]

@@stuglenn1112 Uh-huh. And taking your opinion into account is like taking expertise from ballet dancer about nuclear fission. Everyone has an opinion. But not all opinions have equal value. Yours, not so much. So calm down.

[@mgsee]

Many of his furniture pieces are ugly! Too many architects, like Frank Lloyd Wright, seem to think that furniture is just small buildings.

[@youtubecommenter4069]

Guess you believe Victorian, Baroque antique and Revivalist that he rejected was beautiful?

[@mgsee]

​@@youtubecommenter4069 On the contrary my friend. I trained as a furniture and industrial designer and have a keen interest in art and design spanning different periods and cultural locations. However, I have to admit I would particularly struggle to engage with and appreciate furniture from the periods you mentioned! No, it's just a case that I find a lot of his furniture (not all) to be unergonomic and aesthetically challenged.

[@youtubecommenter4069]

​@@mgsee, It's good to agree on something as we seem to do. FLW was avantgarde in his entire career. Working as he did with nature; stone, wood and "newer" materials like reinforced concrete and glass while experimenting and producing some masterpieces, extending this to furniture would produce less than optimal prototypes - the user friendliness would need further development. This, including his tools of work; the tee square and triangle contributed to his overall aesthetic that extended to his furniture. I believe such approaches as the Bauhausian school "whittled" a lot of what FLW's heavyset-looking furniture comparatively was. FLW, although an engineer/ architect as Marcel Breuer and many other Bauhaus graduates were tried to integrate his building and his furniture and vice-versa hence the furniture look. The Bauhausian approach was much contrasted. In addition, FLW’s differentiated furniture designs for his houses and offices like the Johnsons Wax, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to me talk to his recognition of “ergonomics”. The collectors interviewed seen do confirm this

[@SonicPhonic]

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