As they used to say in the old Victorian theatres, something for your delectation. A fascinating glimpse into the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, a video made by the French channel Arte. His houses are square, flat but yet appeal to the heart, his waterfall house a whimsy of a building set in nature. He believed houses should relate to the natural world around them, he called it organic architecture.
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His private life was in a bit of a turmoil, but his arrogance carried him forward. Three wives and several children spawned but not exactly cared for by him, genius has a lot to answer. Tragedy struck his middle wife and two children, who lost their lives in a fire in one of his houses, but you have to watch to see the full story, and at 52 minutes it is rather long.
As a knitter I follow several blogs, and one of them is about someone who works at the large wool firm of Jamieson & Smith Shetland Wool Brokers in Lerwick. His latest blog gives you a flavour of the remoteness of the Shetland Islands, also as you look at the derelict crofts, the heartache and despair as people failed to make a living. The blog is here .
What would we do without our modern world of television, radio and computer, they introduce us to our world of civilisation.
Funnily enough, in one of the emails received about cats, another tale emerged. There is an eco-type house being built down the road on a couple of acres. The people live in the 200ish year old cottage. Well after a couple of years of waiting for planning permission and moving newts, they started a couple of months ago, only to be stopped, the digger had hit a shale level below the clay, planning called a halt. As E says the cottage built on clay has stood without any trouble for a long time, but luckily they are not living in a caravan on site like they do in 'Grand Designs'. So more metres of concrete is called for, it is almost the 'in' material nowadays, polished it becomes a floor.
Coffee calls, cat fed and bantams let out.
There is a funny story about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was walking through a park one day when he came upon an accident involving someone who had managed to sever an artery in his leg. The first aider had wrapped a makeshift tourniquet around the leg, but needed a stick or something to twist it tight. He asked F.L.W. if he happened to have a pencil about him. F.L.W. looked in his pocket and said, "Would an 2H do?"
ReplyDeleteSort of funny from your capacious pocket of stories! ;)
DeleteI'm not sure I believe it. A pencil would be too weak.
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DeleteI've visited his wonderful home and studio, Taliesin East, in Wisconsin. Nearby is the graveyard where he 'was' buried. The guide told us his second wife had wanted him buried at Taliesin West. In the night she and her son dug up the body and transported it in a convertible to Arizona.
ReplyDeleteDigging up a body? So all those American horror stories are true ;)
DeleteSome day I hope to see that house. I am amazed it has lasted with all the changes to climate!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to sit on a rocky ledge which would worry me if I came out for the 'view' tumbling into the waters below.
DeleteI've visited Taliesin in Wisconsin. A small man, tiny rooms and passages.
ReplyDeleteBeing small probably accounts for his arrogance, but then he had something to be arrogant about. Small rooms are definitely out of fashion now.
ReplyDeleteGreat architecture! Round here you have to keep everything 'in keeping' with the buildings that are already here and use the same stone. We could do with some more imaginative creations, I think. People should be able to find new ways to make their buildings harmonize with the environment.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit like the way people drool over Cotswold stone and all the villages. Though historically there is a need for conservation. Grand Designs has modern ideas, the only problem I have with those houses, what do people do for entertainment. Do the books and television lurk behind cupboard doors?
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