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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

ROOF PATTERN TYPES

When seen from bird's eye view, intersecting roof lines covering a building form a geometrical pattern. John Geiger applied 8 categories of pattern type to 55 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Only commissions with an assigned roof pattern type appear in this search.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

House, Stable, and Gardener's Cottage for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley [Riverside, Illinois] (1908)

Drawing: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer saya rug design, probaly exterior tile iwall design not used

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0803.071

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Ornament/Terra cotta.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 96, page 117] in Alofsin, Anthony, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 A Study of Influence (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago, 1993).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 16, page 14] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1935 (Volume 5) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).