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More than 100 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions have special place names (e.g. "Hollyhock House" or "Fallingwater"). These titles were often bestowed by Wright on his designs but some were applied by clients. Only Wright projects with nicknames appear in this search.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Country House Reconstruction for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin" (Taliesin III) [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1925)

Drawing: Floor plan of Taliesin prior to extension of Mr. Wright''s room

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2501.060

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: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; ink.
Drawing measurements: 58 x 35"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) Drawing shows the 1943? exterior to the lower level guest wing but not the extension of Mr. Wright's on to the balcony, which places it beween 43 and 53. John W. Geiger 09/06/00

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 144] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 130, page 174] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 152, page 141] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 155, page 186] in Meech, Julia, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001).