Sometimes it's good for me to get an idea of what's not "PrairieMod" to help me appreciate what is. Case in point: an article showcasing "Mid-Century Modern meets Louis the XIV." Follow the link and prepare to shudder.
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February 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works Vol. 2 News
I received an email update that the eagerly anticipated second volume of Taschen's massive Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works will be available in March! I'll have to start saving my lunch money for this one...More info and images here.
Image via Taschen
Teco Art Pottery Collection® in Garden Design & Wallpaper*
The Teco Art Pottery Collection® was recently featured in Garden Design magazine (page 14) and Wallpaper*.
We're thrilled to have yet another product of ours receive some really cool press. Follow the links to check the features out.
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Gerd Arntz Web Archive
I stumbled upon this very cool archive of pictograms by the German artist Gerd Arntz (1900-1988). Meant to communicate various subjects and distill them down to simple iconic graphics, the visual language was later known as ISOTYPE, or the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. Arntz designed over 4000 ISOTYPES, many of which are shown on the web archive. Take some time to check out these little graphic gems here.
Image via the Gerd Arntz Web Archive
A Day Of Fun Stuff: Part 2
Following-up on the Mod Doll House post, here's a link to artist/designer Mark Giglio's painted wooden dolls as seen on his website: pen pencil stencil. The abstracted forms and bold color designs are reminiscent of Alexander Girard's wooden dolls he created for his Santa Fe home. See more of Mark's work here.
Top image copyright Mark Giglio/bottom image copyright Vitra
Palm Springs Barbie Dream House
Looking deliciously Mod with not a drop of pink in sight, this rockin' doll house by a new company called Brinca Dada looks like it takes some inspiration from Richard Neutra's Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs. See more here.
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A Look Back: Garrity House
With the news that the slightly flummoxed Walter Burley Griffin-designed Garrity House is in the process of finding a new owner, I thought it would interest readers to see how the house appeared back in better days. Here's a link to some photos of how it originally looked from the archive at the National Library of Australia. Enjoy!
Image via the National Library of Australia
FanGuide™ in the Chicago News!
FanGuide™ tours have been mentioned twice this week in the Chicago press. Once with an excellent review in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Section (download PDF) and once in TimeOut Chicago's list of Must-Have iPhone Apps.
Very cool! We'd like to send a big THANK YOU to the Editors of these publications!
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Reminder: February 2010 Living PrairieMod Newsletter Drawing
Yeah, Baby!
Stripe it Rich
Tendency to Swoon (Pictured)
Persuade Me
Martha Stewart Lattice
Only subscribers of the Living PrairieMod Weekly Newsletter are eligible, so sign-up!
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Ursa The Bear
Designer David Weeks, creator of Hanno the wooden Gorilla, has a new addition to his growing menagerie of cool wooden toy animals. Meet Ursa the Bear, a fully articulated bear that is sure to provide youngsters (or adults) hours of fun. See more here.
Image copyright David Weeks Studio
I'll Drink To That
Three Palms Wine out of Tulsa, OK has produced a new Cabernet Sauvignon and it has won the Oklahoma State Wine Championship. It's name? "Westhope," in honor of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house built for former Tulsa Tribune publisher (and Wright's cousin) Richard Lloyd Jones. Read about it here. Cheers!
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Everyone's A Critic
Apparently, some people don't think very highly of the new Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago and decided to vandalize it with graffiti. Read about it here and here. Thanks to PrairieMod reader Jessamyn M. for the submission!
Image via NBCchicago.com
Half Fiction, Half Life
Wright Condensed
Griffin's Garrity House Needs Some Love
The Walter Burley Griffin-designed Garrity House in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago has had some tough breaks in the last decade. Foreclosed-on, re-muddled, neglected—it's been through a lot. It's now involved in a short sale and according to the realty web page, under a contingent contract. Hopefully it will see some better days. Read more here, here and see the realty page here.
Image via cribchatter.com
UC Santa Barbara Art Museum's Archive Just Got Better
The Architecture and Design Collection at the UC Santa Barbara Art
Museum is little known, but one of the nation's best. It recently added the archive of one of Southern California's leading postwar
modernists, Rex Lotery. Read more here and learn more about the collection here.
Image via LAtimes.com
Chicago's New Architectural Hero
Haaretz.com profiles our local architectural dynamo, Jeanne Gang, whose new Aqua skyscraper is making waves on the skyline and in the news. Read more here.
Image via Wikipedia
Wallpaper Magazine Hearts LEGO Fallingwater
Our friends at Taliesin West let us know that the Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Fallingwater set was named one of Wallpaper Magazine's best designs of 2010! See the list here.
Image via LEGO.com
Larkin House?
Though the title of this article is "Doing Frank Lloyd Wright Proud," I'm not sure he's be all that psyched about a Canadian firm trading on the name and reputation of Wright's lost Buffalo, NY masterpiece, the Larkin Administration Building, to sell apartments in something called Larkin House. Pretty shameless. Read more here and gawk more here.
Image via Halkier & Associates Interiors: Polygon
Robie's Year
2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Wright's Prairie School masterpiece, the Frederick C. Robie House, located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is planning a slew of programs and events celebrating the building's milestone birthday and its restoration. Read an article about it all here and find out how to plan a visit here.
Image copyright Tim Long/via FLWPT
Guggenheim Online Time Line
Frank Lloyd Wright's triumphant final masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum, took 16 years to come to life. In honor of the building's 50th anniversary, an online time line has been put together documenting the stages of its design and construction. Explore it here.
Image via guggenheim.org
Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture Film Screening
Not only am I thrilled about the John Lautner DVD, but I also am looking forward to this gorgeous forthcoming documentary about Louis Sullivan. The filmmaker for Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture will be hosting a screening on March 14th, 2010 at the Gene Siskel film center in Chicago. Details here.
Image copyright Whitecap Films
Infinite Space, The Architecture of John Launter Now on DVD!
I'm a nut when it comes to super-cool documentaries and this one seems to be ever so promising. I plan on picking up a copy at the Lautner Exhibit when I'm in Palm Springs next week, but you can order yours online from the filmmaker.
Image copyright Infinite Space
Another Trite Swipe At Wright
It's far easier to criticize than truly study and understand. Case-in-point: this recent lfpress.com critique on why Frank Lloyd Wright's furniture is uncomfortable. Yawn, what a revelation. Here's a question--has the blobby La-Z-Boy ever inspired generations of scholars and designers?
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Modernism Week
More Fay Jones Related News
It's a double E. Fay Jones news day! Students with the Fay Jones School of Architecture in
Fayetteville broke ground on Little Rock's first sustainable, design-build home. Constructed in modules, they'll be transported and put together on-site in the spring. Follow the link to learn more and to watch a video clip.
Image via www.todaysthv.com
Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones
The life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright student, E. Fay Jones has been told in the
documentary Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones. The 60-minute film by Dale Carpenter
and Larry Foley will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Fayetteville Public Library. It also will air on the Arkansas Educational Television Network at 9 p.m. March 25 and at 1 p.m. March 28. The film is available on DVD, as part of a new collaboration between the University of Arkansas Press and the university’s Fay Jones School of Architecture. Read more here.
Image via University of Arkansas Press
Visual Acoustics At Monona Terrace
Wright In Wisconsin recently announced the next event in The Wright Lecture Series 2010: A screening of the film Visual Acoustics. Find out the details after the jump...
Folded-Roof House
Check out this lovely answer to prefab home design, courtesy of architect and designer Claesson Koivisto Rune. Built in Muskö, Sweden, this one-story house with an asymmetrical folded-roof was designed for Swedish kit house company Arkitekthus. See more here.
Image via claessonkoivistorune.se
Seven Great Movies Starring Architecture
IFC.com put together a list of seven great films that feature some great architecture. On the list is the fictional Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home designed for the Hitchcock film North by Northwest. See the entire list here.
Image via IFC.com
Jazz At The Turkel House
There's no shortage of great events happening in conjunction with great architecture! If you love truly American music combined with truly American architecture, then you won't want to miss Jazz at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Dorothy Turkel House in Detroit, Michigan. More details after the jump...
Hollyhock's Amazing Art Glass Tour
The L.A. TImes reports that David Judson of the renowned Los Angeles glass workshop Judson StudiosHollyhock House
will lead 25 visitors on a special 1½-hour lecture and tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's on Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Judson will provide the historical background of the residence's art glass
while pointing out other details.
Reservations and the
$20 donation are due by Feb. 20. Tickets will go fast, so make your reservations by clicking here.
Photo copyright Gabriel Cifarelli
Party At The Scheimer House
How The Wright Stuff Was Won
More details are coming out that help tell the story of how the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, working together with the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, secured the massive collection of Wright-related materials that were recently on the Bonhams auction block. Read more after the jump...
Yoshiko Meets Gustav
I'm loving this Yoshiko Yamamoto (of The Arts & Crafts Press fame) limited
edition, signed, and numbered block print of the Log House at Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms. Read more about it here.
Image copyright Yoshiko Yamamoto
Was Neutra Building Really Saved?
Paul Hodgins posts in The Orange County Register that the effort in saving the Richard Neutra-designed Mariners Medical Arts Building might be a hollow victory, now that the current owner has broken his preservation promise and destroyed significant parts of the structure. Read more here.
Image copyright Paul Hodgins
Big 10 School Scores Some Starchitecture
Another Big 10 school adds to their architectural line-up. Blair Kamin posts on the news that Michigan State University breaks ground
for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, designed by
London-based architect Zaha Hadid. Read more about it here.
Image via Cityscapes.com
Church Moderne
Vocalo.com's architecture guru, Lee Bey, writes about one of Chicago's most striking pieces of architecture: First Church of Deliverance, an Art Moderne structure at 4315 S. Wabash. Built in 1939, the church was designed by Walter T. Bailey, the first licensed African American architect in Illinois. Read more about it here.
Image copyright Lee Bey
Chicago To Host Global Convention & Expo On Architecture
Architectural-design firms, academic communities, non-profit organizations, bloggers and product retailers from the U.S. and abroad are invited to celebrate the AIA-initiated Architecture Week by participating in the Global Convention & Expo on Architecture in Chicago, April 15-17, 2010. The theme of this event is "Global Challenges: Architectural Solutions" and will be held blocks from Chicago's iconic Millennium Park at the historic Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center. Read more about it here.
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Willoughby's Restoration Woes
The cost of restoring Willoughby, Australia’s Walter Burley Griffin-designed
incinerator has currently run-over costs by $2 million and the project is running a
year late. Conservationists say it's worth it, but what's burning through all the funds? Read more about it here.
Image via The North Shore Times
Etsy Searches: Roycroft
Looking for something to dress-up your Arts & Crafts Bungalow? Put in the word "Roycroft" into the etsy.com search and there's a handful of interesting things that pop-up, including this Roycroft Renaissance tablehere. runner. See more here.
Image via etsy user paintbythread
Remembering Robert W. Beharka
Architect and former Taliesin apprentice Robert W. Beharka recently passed away in January. A wonderful appreciation of this talented man has been posted on John Geiger's website, written by Roderick Grant and originally published in the Journal of the Taliesin Fellows. Read it here.
Glass Man
Here's a link to a story about art glass artist and restoration expert David Condon of Riverside, IL whose portfolio includes restoring Robie House's numerous windows. Read more here.
Image copyright Bill Ackerman
Conservancy Chooses Cincinnati
Save the date! The 2010 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference will be held Sept 22-26 in the often architecturally under-appreciated city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Read more here.
An Auction's Happy Ending
Good news comes out of the recent Bonhams & Butterfields auction of rare Frank Lloyd Wright materials associated with the author Henry Russel Hitchcock. The LA Times reports that the winning bid was put-in by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation—the very place these materials originated and belong. Read more about this story here.
Image via Bonhams & Butterfields
All That Glitters
Find out by attending the talk at 7:30 p.m. at Wright's Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street in Oak Park. Tickets are $15 for foundation members, students 22 years old and under, and seniors 65 and over. The cost for others is $20. For additional information, go to www.utrf.org or call (708) 383-8873.
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