The Robie House: A Virtual Visit

[@normanbonk8064]

I loooove this house! Prayers.

[@lydiabestul9490]

So cool! Cannot wait to see it in person someday!

[@lindaqueen634]

My late husband lived in the Robbie House when he was in the Chicago Theological Seminary in the 1940’s.

[@daltonbedore8396]

never seen the inside before.... truly timeless

[@UnbelievablyGauche]

It would be nicer to enter the home and look around as if we were on a tour, but some great moments. Thank you

[@falldogii]

Thank you so much for this. This day one year ago I was taking your tours in Oak Park - such happy memories. You do such great work.

[@BGTuyau]

Nice photography ...

[@liaficarelli6182]

Splendid House, thanks!

[@Davett53]

In recent years I have seen some FLW designed houses in my home state of Ohio. They are his buildings referred to as the Usonian (style) from the 1930s. They possess a low roofline, are very horizontal, & are usually single story, homes, with flat roofs. They are nettled in sites with natural elements all around. They always employ locally quarried stone & common building materials of brick and concrete. The interiors are sort of dark, with dark red painted concrete floors, and lots of medium dark wood on the walls, surrounding the brick areas. The living rooms & dinning rooms have plenty light from large windows of open glass, no grids of panes & they enjoy the views of the nature outside. Some interior walls are concrete block, and are usually presented and meant to be kept, in their natural (concrete) finish, not painted or plastered over. To me they feel & look like, Craftsman Styled homes, though more like bungalows. In all the Wright designed homes, he includes all the shelving and furniture he's designed specifically for the homes. They are wonderful and well thought out, but is it hard to find complementary, manufactured furnishings one might also need.

[@albertfreehandchannel5653]

very detail

[@user-dd6ng1wn1b]

I kept looking at the great room and thinking all it really needs is a pool table. I wonder how Wright felt about pool tables.

[@BGTuyau]

There was a billiards room on the ground floor.

[@tushardas9010]

Are the dimension of the houses available to the public

[@SteveInSunnyCA]

I don’t think I’m the only viewer fo this KZbin video who would have appreciated your mentioning where this house is.

[@giftyasomah3400]

on the campus of The University of Chicago

[@razinkhan68]

Do you have plans to recreate original furnitures of the living room, because i believe there were more furniture apart from the winged sofa in the living room.

[@DavidJGillCA]

At 5:03 you can see how the living room was originally furnished.

[@ScottHughes-n4u]

Architecturally striking but ergonomically flawed for Chicago's harsh winters. With all those floor to ceiling French doors you would freeze from all the draft intrusion. There are 16 large glass doors in the living room dining room which represents a tremendous amount of heat loss. You'd have to winter in Florida!

[@SwagMaster824]

This doesn’t even look like a house that people lived in but they did

[@jamesmcinnis208]

It must be fancy. It has a British narratuh.

[@richardmckrell4899]

Were the interior images computer generated?

[@drewpadgett3070]

No

[@amail1986]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇧🇷

[@zaiga23]

Ayo the me robi :( how

[@joshuajackasandwich3562]

this video isn't right. A tour would be an experience. walking through a home like that wouldn't relate to a video like this. I don't think you love Mr. Wright. I feel disrespected for watching this atrocity towards beauty.

[@JohnSmith-pg9ns]

Ok boomer

[@drewpadgett3070]

It’s just giving people that don’t get to experience it a way to see the home

[@mattdlmn]

House is very plain looking, nothing like some of the beauty that used to exist

[@williamj.stockich]

Would you care to provide some links to that beauty that used to exist?

[@marcopivetta7796]

So far from plain looking lmao its intricate geometry is proof enough. You have a plain eye for space and for design.

[@Davett53]

Wonderfull homes that are fit for God's, not humans. Unless you were a part of the billionaire class. Forget about owning your own personal furnishings. FLW designed everything, the carpeting the tables and chairs. You couldn't back then or now, be able to buy your own things, because they would look cheap in contrast. His chairs were magnificent, but extremely uncomfortable. You'd have to be rich enough to have a full staff of house cleaners too. All the ceiling wood trim would be magnets for cobwebs and dust,...that would require a designated staff to keep after. These wonderful homes are sort stuck being museums, as I suspect they aren't much fun to live in,....though staying in them for a week or so would fun. They might bend your brain, because everything is so geometrical,....very few things possess curves, if any at all. His houses seemed to be at war with curves and anything round. I have seen some lesser FLW homes where the owner's were able to introduce high quality authentic Mission Styled furnishings, and even a few Bauhaus inspired items. Forget about trying to place some Mid Century Modern items into these homes. The homes would revolt, and implode.