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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWING DETAIL


House for Mr. and Mrs. David Wright [Phoenix, Arizona] (1950)

Drawing: Lower floor plan with petal landscape motif

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5030.013

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: The petal patterned planting plan was intended to keep the house from 'spinning", as per Pedro Guerrero, #0168, in his book "Picturing Wright". I did a drawing, after Mr Wright, of the petal plan. John W. Geiger

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 263] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 571, page 288] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).