November 30, 2007 – 2:12 pm
Holiday tour in Michigan is NOT NOT NOT a Wright house, but a Wright-inspired one. Sorry, I’ll smack myself for you.
Platt and Pratt — you’d think that fancy liberal arts education would have taught me to actually READ.
November 30, 2007 – 8:52 am
Because I’m an idiot easily seduced by ideas that are monumentally stupid:
Growing up, my parents always made an advent calendar a big part of the Christmas season, and it’s a tradition we have continued with Gabe.
Last week I thought that a web-based Frank lloyd Wright advent calendar would be a way to keep the Newsblog […]
November 30, 2007 – 8:15 am
[ December 8, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]
For teens and adults.
Make a Usonian-style gingerbread house at the Price Tower Arts Center. Advance registration is preferred, and the cost is $10. All supplies provided.
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November 30, 2007 – 8:13 am
[ December 7, 2007; 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
For children 3 - 10.
Make a Usonian-style gingerbread house at the Price Tower Arts Center. Advance registration is preferred, and the cost is $10. All supplies provided.
More information
November 30, 2007 – 8:09 am
Coolest Wright-themed Christmas event ever: make a Usonian-style gingerbread house.
Price Tower Arts Center is offering two opportunities to make the holiday treats on December 7 (for children 3 to 10) and December 8 (for teens and adults). Registration is preferred and the cost is $10, all supplies provided.
November 29, 2007 – 5:42 pm
I mentioned this before (I think), but several of the “Tree of Life” windows from the Darwin Martin House are on exhibit in Ithaca, New York at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. It must be a small exhibit, but if holiday travel takes you through whatever part of New York Ithaca is in, […]
November 29, 2007 – 4:13 pm
The Eric Pratt House, a Usonian Automatic completed in 1951, will be part of a historic homes tour this Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $12 and benefit the Tri-Cities Historical Museum. The tour includes six other homes in the area. Tickets are available from the museum or any of the homes on the tour.
The home […]
November 29, 2007 – 11:07 am
Sunday’s Tribune ran Blair Kamin’s review of the new Spertus institute of Jewish Studies, ready to open to the public on South Michigan. Worth reading on its own, it included this heartening passage:
At the time, architects fumed that giving city bureaucrats tight rein over this so-called Historic Michigan Boulevard District, which includes such masterpieces as […]
November 29, 2007 – 10:55 am
Edgar Kaufmann’s other landmark house, a 1946 Richard Neutra design (Neutra was a Frank Lloyd Wright student), will be auctioned by Christie’s in May for a price estimated between $15 and $25 million.
The house was restored in the mid-90s (one of the owners received her Ph.D. in architectural history while working on the house — […]
November 28, 2007 – 9:16 am
Anthony McCune has new photos of the Ellis Feiman house up on his blog. Even if you seen his previous photos, take a look at these: the house looks great surrounded by the Autumn leaves.