I don’t generally mention The Frank lloyd Wright Quarterly. If you subscribe, you already know what’s in the current issue, and if you aren’t a member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, since the content isn’t on-line, you can’t read it, so there really isn’t any point in mentioning it.
But the Winter 2008 issue is […]
La Miniatura (the Alice Millard House), rarely open to the public, was opened for tours on Saturday. Here is the first Flickr set from the event. 48 impressive photos, well worth checking out.
[Found via the photographer’s website]
A Los Angeles Times article on the tour put the attendance at 1,000, and mentions that the house, privately […]
Hands down, by a country mile, and without fear of contradiction or error, I am declaring the film Once to be the best movie of 2007, possibly the best move to date of the decade. the Irish busker movie has won the highly-coveted Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog Trinket of Conspicuous Distinction.
It is so good, that […]
The Darwin Martin complex has received a $2.5 million gift for the construction of the Toshiko Mori-designed Visitor’s Center on the site.
From Wilson and Eleanor Greatbatch (Wilson was an early innovator of the implanted pacemaker), the gift has spurred construction of the long-planned Visitor’s Center — now named the Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion — […]
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the Getty Foundation’s Campus Heritage Initiative, now ending after a successful six-year run. This was the program that funded the initial survey of the campus of Florida Southern College and the preparation of a master plan for the campus.
The foundation awarded grants ranging from $45,000 to […]
An editorial appeared in the Kankakee’s The Daily Journal “supporting local efforts”: to bring that city’s two Wright-designed homes (the Hickox and Bradley Houses — conveniently on the same street) under public ownership and to operate them as a cultural destination.
How much it will cost is still an unknown, but we believe the final […]
Training sessions for Wright Plus volunteers begin Saturday, February 2 and continue for the next five Saturdays. Call 708-848-1976 ext. 223 or e-mail volunteer@wrightplus.org. From what I’ve heard, volunteers for the Preservation Trust are very well-trained, so this would be a great opportunity to earn a boatload about Wright and Oak Park history.
I’ll, of course, be […]
[ January 26, 2008; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ]
An opportunity to tour La Miniatura, not normally open to the public.
Tickets: $50 (discount available for students and members of Friends of the Gamble House) call 626-793-334 ex. 52
[ January 25, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]
Lecture given by Frank Henry, Studio Master at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
Tickets: $25, call 626-793-334 ex. 52