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The Three Taliesins
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou are looking at floor plans of Taliesin showing the areas around the bedrooms for Olgivanna and Frank Lloyd Wright. Her bedroom is number 30 and his is number 33. I think it’s cool that in 1911 those numbers are just hanging out there in space and the building just keeps getting bigger. I’m going […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and Feng Shui
Reading Time: 4 minutesPhotograph showing Frank Lloyd Wright (center) seated with staff for the Imperial Hotel. Photo dated c. 1920. While not as consistent as “How tall was Frank Lloyd Wright?” he said he was 5’8″ [almost 173 cm] “Did Frank Lloyd Wright know Feng Shui?” is one of those questions people asked me sometimes when I gave […]
Stone Entry Gates on Highway 23
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhoto taken in 1955 by Maynard Parker for House Beautiful magazine. It wasn’t published at that time, but you can find it on p. 4-5 in the book At Taliesin; and in the book Working with Mr. Wright, p. 8-9. Are not the original entry gates to Taliesin. That’s what I’m going to explain in […]
Darkroom at Taliesin
Reading Time: 5 minutesRaymond Trowbridge took this photograph while looking at the Agricultural Wing at Taliesin. Taken before September 20, 1930. p.s.: the darkroom isn’t in the part of the building you see in this photo. My post this week grew out of a question related to Raymond Trowbridge – the photographer who took photos at Taliesin in […]
Keiran on Catholicism
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy mother took this photograph of me shortly after my Confirmation in the 6th grade. If you follow me, you know I occasionally write about my different interests and preoccupations. That’s true for my post today. While I mentioned being Catholic in my post last year about the movie, Dune, the death of Pope Francis […]
Change at Taliesin’s Hill Crown
Reading Time: 5 minutesLooking north at Taliesin during its initial construction. Wright’s draftsman, Taylor Woolley took this photograph in 1911.1 In today’s post I’m going to write about another change at Taliesin. This was something I became aware of Frank-knows how many years ago.2 I probably realized it after looking through a loupe in ferreting out changes on […]
Close to posting regularly again
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve had obligations this Winter/early-Spring, but I am about 50% of the way through them before I get back to posting regularly. Still, I thought I should check in here with a new blog post. To begin In February I gave my presentation on “The Myths of the 1914 Fire” at the local library. This […]
Recommended – Working With Mr. Wright, by Curtis Besinger
Reading Time: 5 minutesCurtis Besinger is seated at the piano on the far left conducting choir practice. This photograph was taken 1940-42 inside the room at Taliesin West known as the Kiva. See the list of apprentices at the bottom of this page. It’s been awhile since I’ve recommended something new for you to read. I wish […]
The telephone game of tour guiding
Reading Time: 4 minutesA photo I took of staff from Taliesin Preservation on a “class trip” to the Johnson Wax World Headquarters. The “telephone game of tour guiding” is what I came up with after hearing some whoppers from tour guides at Taliesin. btw: I’m writing only about staff I’ve come across, not who’s giving tours there now. […]
The Chronologies—my detailed history of Taliesin
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe drawing above shows the main floor of Taliesin where Wright lived, 1936-39. This is one of my favorite Taliesin drawings. Why? Because it actually shows the space pretty much as it existed at that time. In this case, I’m talking about Taliesin the building, not Taliesin the estate. I mean: the UNESCO site, […]
