The centerpiece of our very last day was a tour of Taliesen West, Frank Lloyd Wright's experimental home-slash-workshop-slash-work in progress in the middle of the Arizona desert. I'm not really a huge Wright fan, but it was fun to see -- and also to learn what a gigantic a**hole he was. (Astounding how the architect stereotype pulls through so many times! Ha ha, apologies to any architect friends reading this... but you know what I mean.)
I was actually more interested in Wright's furniture designs (big surprise there -- check out my post on
Donald Judd's furniture). You can see the Asian influence in these "Origami" chairs and table sets:
His doors are also fascinating -- apparently he built them especially low so that you are forced to acknowledge your transition into another space...HIS space.
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