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Novel Inspires New Frank Lloyd Wright Tour: "Loving Frank" inspires new tour at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Wisconsin →
abcnews.go.com
SPRING GREEN, Wis. (AP) — A novel about Frank Lloyd Wright’s love life has inspired a new tour at Taliesin in southwest Wisconsin.
Nancy Horan’s best-selling “Loving Frank: A Novel” has brought attention to the tourist destination in Spring Green, which had a record attendance last season of about 28,500 people.
It’s based on the relationship between the famous architect and his real-life mistress Mamah Borthwick Cheney. [ABC News via AP]
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (via aidsofwin)
Plans move ahead for Wright gas station →
wivb.com
BUFFALO, NY - The plans for the long-awaited Frank Lloyd Wright gas station took a step forward Tuesday when city planners approved a the construction of an atrium to enclose the structure.
The Planning Board gave the green light to plans by businessman James Sandoro to build a 47-foot-high atrium on Michigan Avenue near Seneca Street.
The station structure, with it’s 45’ high copper totems and expansive copper roof will now be protected from exposure to wind, rain and snow and will be able to be seen in comfort year round
Wright originally designed the gas station for a corner not far away at Michigan and Cherry.
The gas station will be and expansion for Sandoro’s Buffalo Transportation/Pierce Arrow Museum.
(via wvib.com)
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright to New York Times Magazine, 1953 (via)
Listen
Melissa Galt podcast.
This is an interview by Alan Saunders on National Radio 691 with Melissa Galt. She is a well-known designer in the US, but also the great-granddaughter of groundbreaking architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
