THE NATURAL HOUSE By Frank Lloyd Wright. Beautiful 1954 Horizon Press First Edition in Dust Jacket. 224 pages and 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. Frank Lloyd Wright: THE NATURAL HOUSE. New York: Horizon Press, 1954. First edition [with "/54" in the initial box on the front cover]. Oatmeal cloth decorated in Cherokee red and black. Endpapers printed in red. 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. Front pastedown lightly offset from the red block on the front free endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed with a couple of faint scratches over authors portrait on rear panel, otherwise a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. 8.25 x 10.25 hardcover book with 224 pages and 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. For more than a half century Frank Lloyd Wright has been the prophet of a new idea in architecture. It is called organic architecture. It has spread throughout the world. This is Frank Lloyd Wrights treatise on designing the organic house of the future, with particular attention paid to his Usonian house projects and descriptions of a simplified version the Usonian Automaticthat the owners themselves can build with great economy and beauty. The Usonian house, Wright proclaims, aims to be a natural performance, one that is integral to site, to environment, to the life of the inhabitants, integral with the nature of the materials. “In our country the chief obstacle to any real solution of the moderate-cost house-problem is the fact that our people do not really know how to live, imagining their idiosyncrasies to be their “tastes, their prejudices to be their predilections and their ignorance to be virtue where any beauty of living is concerned. – Frank Lloyd Wright. From the book: This book not only brings together for the first time Mr. Wrights earlier writings onthehouse of moderate cost; it also contains a great deal of new material, never before published, which he has just written specifically to answer such important practical questions as: How can it be done with a limited budget? What kind of land and where/ What materials to use? What is the best kind of roof? Must be a pattern for more simple and, at the same time, more gracious living: new but suitable to living conditions as they might so well be in the country we live in today. This needed house of moderate cost must sometime face reality. The houses built by the million. Do no such thing. To me such houses are “escapist” houses, putting on some style or other, really having none. A style is not. There is all the difference when we work with style and not for a style. For an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. Please contact me for details. The item “1954 Frank Lloyd Wright THE NATURAL HOUSE Horizon Press USONIAN Architecture 1st” is in sale since Wednesday, May 1, 2019. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “modernism101″ and is located in Shreveport, Louisiana. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Frank Lloyd Wright Wasmuth Portfolio Horizon Press 1963 This is Copy 419B of the Frank Lloyd Wright Wasmuth Portfolio reprinted by Horizon Press in 1963. It has been inspected only twice as I recall. The second time was this day of listing to ascertain the presence of all 100 plates. Note: Plate 1 (Winslow House) is slightly darkened on the edges by the folio flaps. All other plates are pristine. The folio outer covers are pristine. Colors in the photos vary due to lighting and flash and/or flood lamps. The item “Frank Lloyd Wright Wasmuth Portfolio Horizon Press 1963″ is in sale since Tuesday, February 5, 2019. This item is in the category “Art\Art Drawings”. The seller is “jjohnson4219″ and is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States.
Buildings, Plans, and Designs. New York: Horizon, (1963). (16 by 25-1/2 inches), 100 loose. As issued in original half black cloth portfolio with ribbon ties, accompanying text with an introduction written by Frank Lloyd Wright and a list of plates (photos of some – all available upon request). In English of Frank Lloyd Wrights first major publication, number 117B of 2600 copies a grand portfolio of one hundred large folio plates of Wrights earliest designs, including the Frederick C. Robie house (1909), the finest of the Prairie houses. The first period of Wrights career was one of bold invention and public acclaim. It reached its climax in 1910 with the German publication of his architectural drawings in an extraordinary pair of portfolios. The young architect had come to Europe in 1909, invited by the German publisher Wasmuth and Professor Kuno Francke for the purpose of a cultural and artistic interchange (Sweeney, xv-xx). Buildings, Plans and Designs. Remained for many years virtually unknown in America, because a fire in 1914 had destroyed, not only Wrights home at Taliesin, but also that portion of the 1910 printing intended for American distribution. Wright authorized the publication of this edition in 1958, just a year before his death. Included are designs for 70 buildings and projects between 1893 and 1909, including the W. Winslow house (1893), the Unity Temple at Oak Park (1906) and the Frederick C. Robie house (1909), which has generally been regarded as the finest of the Prairie Houses (Roth, 463). Entire schools of architectural design and thought were in many cases founded on individual buildings or ideas presented in this folio (Sweeney). Despite Wrights popularity and the number of intervening years, this American edition is preceded only by the German-language editions. This collection has rarely been handled. In very good condition, minor wear at bottom of spine and a few scuffs on the cover. Plates are stacked neatly with no wear on the edges. Images are sharp, no fading. I’ve seen others posted but none that were in this good of a condition. I will have it professionally packed and boxed to preserve the current condition. This was my fathers prized possession having been an architect himself. All of our furniture was “contemporary” growing up (in the 50′s and 60′s) due to his love of Mr. We had a marvelous trip in Chicago touring the Prairie houses before he passed. I know he would like it to be passed on to another lover of modern architecture. The item “Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Plans and Designs Horizon Press 1963 Folio #117B” is in sale since Saturday, January 26, 2019. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “chart8513″ and is located in Mason, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States.
THE STORY OF THE TOWER by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest. 1956 First Edition in Dust Jacket. 134 pages, 2 full color fold-outs, 6 color plates and 130 black and white photographs, drawings and plans. Frank Lloyd Wright: THE STORY OF THE TOWER [The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest]. New York: Horizon Press, 1956. Black cloth embossed and decorated in copper and Cherokee red. 130 black and white photographs, drawings and plans. Interior unmarked and very clean. Dust jacket edgeworn with chips to front panel and spine ends. A nearly fine copy in a nearly very good dust jacket. 8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 134 pages, 2 full color fold-outs, 6 color plates and 130 black and white photographs, drawings and plans. The Story of the Tower includes all of Frank Lloyd Wright’s writings on this subject, revised and brought up to date for this edition. This concept was revolutionary in the history of architecture publishing: for the first time, the evolution of a buildingfrom original idea to plan to day-by-day construction and finally to completionis presented in one full-length book. From The Price Tower website: The Price Tower is a spectacular building of copper and concrete and stands in the downtown area of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The tower was built for Harold C. Price as a corporate headquarters for his pipeline construction company. Price had originally thought of a rather modest rectangular building a few stories high, however Frank Lloyd Wright convinced him that it would be more economic and efficient to build up rather than out. The unique form of the Price Tower was originally designed by Wright for downtown New York City in 1929, as one of a cluster of apartment towers, but was nonetheless unrealized due to the effects of the Great Depression upon real estate prices and building material costs. Wright was delighted to have the opportunity to build his tower on the plains of Oklahoma, and he nicknamed the building The Tree that Escaped the Crowded Forest because it had escaped the crowded forests of Manhattan skyscrapers and was now able to cast its own shadow upon its own piece of land. At the time of its construction, from 1953 to 1956, the Price Tower was the tallest building in Bartlesville and on the corner of Dewey Avenue and Sixth Street at the southern edge of the downtown area. The nickname also reflected the structural design of the tower. Frank Lloyd Wright was an organic architect and often chose themes and ideas from nature. The trunk of the Price Tower is made of four elevator shafts and their structural walls. The trunk extends deep underground like a tap root and provides the strong support for the upper floors, whose tapering cantilevered concrete floor slabs are like branches. The outer walls do not support the building, allowing for large expanses of window glass. The exterior of the Price Tower is clad in copper panels and sun louvers, the leaves of the tree, whose color was aided by chemical applications rather than due to the effects of nature upon the material. The building also tapers upward like a tree with the top three floors progressively becoming narrower and the penthouse floor only a single suite of rooms. Wright also wished to visually connect the inside of a building with the landscape outside by using similar materials on both the interior and exterior, such as the copper panels, concrete, and aluminum trim. Large windows drew the eye outside toward the view of the Oklahoma prairie, with Wright preferring not to have draperies or artwork on the walls to distract ones eye from experiencing the beauty. Frank Lloyd Wright was interested in the ways in which a society worked and felt that architecture could both transform and improve the landscape while helping create a more functional society. He believed that mankind should build up rather than out so that in a skyscraper one could both work and live, but also have everything you need in the same building. Rather than having these businesses, stores, and offices along one street, he favored a vertical street where they are stacked into a tall buildinghis definition of a skyscraper that would release land for parks, gardens, and the general enjoyment of the towns citizens. Price Tower was designed as four quadrants based on the geometry of a 30-60-90° double parallelogram moduleone quadrant for double-height apartments and three quadrants for private offices. Initially, there were eight apartments in the building, with Bruce Goff living and working in the Price Tower for nearly nine years. The first and second floors of the Price Tower were designed for retail and housed a womens dress shop, a beauty salon, and the offices of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma. On the floors above there were a variety of professional offices with the Price Company occupying the top seven floors of the tower including a sixteenth-floor commissary where free lunches were prepared and served to their employees. The seventeenth and eighteenth floors housed the Price Company corporate apartment and the companys conference room. The nineteenth floor penthouse was the office suite for H. Price and his assistant. The Price Tower commission also allowed Wright to design objects within the building. He designed built-in furniture, free standing furniture, fixtures, textiles and decorative artwork. Many of the designs were produced locally to his specifications. The cast aluminum chairs were manufactured by Blue Stem Foundry, Dewey, Oklahoma, with the built-in and freestanding wood furniture built on site. The draperies and upholstery fabrics were designed by Wright as part of his Taliesin line of wallpapers and fabrics, and were manufactured by the F. Schumacher Company, New York City, in 1955. The towers murals were also designed by Wright, with the corporate apartments mural being the only one he inscribed and signed. The floors and ceilings of the building are made of reinforced concrete. Frank Lloyd Wright liked to build with concreteit could be molded, colored with pigments, and was durable and easy to maintain. The floors of the Price Tower are dyed Cherokee Red, which was believed to be his favorite color, and used on many of his designs. The powdered pigment was added to the concrete while it was still wetand after pouring, the floors were scored with the geometric double parallelogram module. In February 1956, the Price Tower was opened for the public to tour. In 1979, the lobby of the Price Tower was remodeled by Taliesin Associated Architects, Scottsdale, Arizona, as Frank Lloyd Wrights firm was known following his death. The room was completed with the hanging of copper metal draperies to complement the copper on the exterior of the building. The Price Company enjoyed the time they owned and occupied the Price Tower and the Price family continued to operate the company and work in the tower until 1981, when the company relocated to Dallas, Texas. The Phillips Petroleum Company then owned the building for a number of years using it for office space, and off-site storage. In 1987, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Bartlesville began conducting tours of the Price Tower, continuing to do so until 1998. In 1990, the Bartlesville Museum and Sculpture Garden began presenting exhibitions in the tower. Their first exhibition, The Tree That Escaped the Crowded Forest, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Price Tower, was a fitting tribute to the Price Towers role in the community. In 1998, The Bartlesville Museum and Sculpture Garden became the Price Tower Arts Center and Phillips Petroleum began to refurbish the tower, making it compliant with current building codes and removing alterations that had been made to the interior spaces. Once completed, Phillips Petroleum then donated the building to the Price Tower Arts Center, who is the current owner of the Price Tower and its city block. In 2003, Inn at Price Tower, a nineteen-room hotel and Copper Bar + Restaurant opened, providing overnight guests the option to fully experience Wrights design. The Price Tower Arts Center galleries now occupies the two-story space once held by the Public Service Company of Oklahoma and the dress shop and beauty salon. In October 2006, the top three floors of the building were reopened following a three- month restoration to their original 1956, appearance, including replacement of furnishings and replication of original draperies and upholstery fabrics. For an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. Please contact me for details. The item “1956 Frank Lloyd Wright THE PRICE TOWER STORY Bartlesville Horizon Press 1st ed” is in sale since Monday, June 27, 2016. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “modernism101″ and is located in Shreveport, Louisiana. This item can be shipped worldwide.
