The Bedroom at Taliesin that Frank Lloyd Wright Used

Reading Time: 6 minutesPhotograph by Ken Hedrich looking (plan) southeast in Frank Lloyd Wright’s bedroom in 1937. Otherwise known as “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bedroom” or “Mr. Wright’s Bedroom”, but the Internet is sometimes Persnickety About Apostrophes (and some people are persnickety about calling him “Mr. Wright”1). I’ll be talking about the bedroom at Taliesin he used after 1936.2 […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesEvery one (like in the caption of the photo above) is wrong when they tell you that Wright was in Chicago or on a set. p.s.: it’s Taliesin. I know because it’s me, remember? The photo shows presenter Hugh Downs and Wright sitting during Downs’ interview with the architect in “Conversations with Elder Wise Men” […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesPhoto by Bmzuckerman. Looking south over the two seating areas in the newly-restored Hillside Theater. Today I’m going to be talking about the Hillside structure on the Taliesin estate. That’s because not long ago I saw a connection to the Sanctuary in Unity Temple, Oak Park. That is: I saw a link between the Hillside […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe photograph above looks (plan) south at the hydroelectrical plant at that serviced Taliesin. In today’s post I’ll be talking about when it appeared.  On Halloween 100 years ago John J. Hoppes, president of the Hoppes Water Wheel Company (Springfield, OH) wrote to Wright: Dear Sir:-             We have your order of October 23rd for […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn today’s post I’m going to write about the public perception of Wright as the millionaire’s architect, countered by his attempts to design and build homes for people in the middle class. It’s not surprising that when you think of Frank Lloyd Wright, you think he only designed for rich people. Because You hear he […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesNext week, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is holding their 2023 conference. The conference will be in Minneapolis-St. Paul and its theme is “Colleagues & Clients: Women’s Roles in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture”. Due to my connection to Taliesin and my life in the Wrightworld, they’re awarding me the “Wright Spirit Award“. So I’m […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesAn image of Annette Funicello with Frankie Avalon from a movie poster from one of their beach blanket movies. Funicello was a person with MS that I grew up knowing about. I added the sharks in homage to the “Sharknado” film series because the absurdity seemed to fit the life I’d just discovered. This past […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesPhotographer (and apprentice) Mat Kauten took this photograph looking at Taliesin’s Garden Room in 1944. I think Gertrude Kerbis might have seen Taliesin at the same time of year that Kauten took his photographs. Here’s the story: a while ago, I received an email from Elizabeth Blasius, an architectural historian and co-founder of Preservation Futures.1 […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe graphic at the top of this page is one of the designs created by the Taliesin Fellowship for their weekly “At Taliesin” newspaper articles that ran from 1934 through late 1937. Architect Randolph C. Henning found these “At Taliesin” articles and put them into a book that I want to write about today. The […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn 1929, architect George Kastner (then, a draftsman for Frank Lloyd Wright) took the photograph at the top of this post. It looks west in Taliesin’s Garden Court while stonemasons lay the wall that separates this courtyard from the other courtyards at Taliesin. This wall ensured that this courtyard would be free from cars. Today […]