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  • Started 4 years ago by MikeTomecek
  • Latest reply from Catherine

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  1. MikeT
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    Here is a link I came across. One thing that I like about this site, is that the person behind it is not a scholar or an architect, but a fan of FLW.

    http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/flw_roadtrip.htm

    Some of my impressions:
    I recall riding my bike daily by that concentration of Wrights near between Lake and Chicago while growing up in OP. I am also not a Wright expert, but I think the Tomek house here in Riverside works so well, especially since it looks at the Longcommon. Unlike some of the homes in OP - which of course are beautiful, but in the end are in a row of houses+ - and like Falling Water, Tomek seems to sit and grow organically out of the surround so perfectly.

    I'll call it Riverside's Falling Water. Or, Illinois's Falling Water.

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    +the studio (corner) and the big Engl Tudor type of house (Nathan Moore) seem to kind of sit by the themselves on bigger lots - from my recollection.

    Posted Thursday Mar 15, 2007 12:30 #
  2. Catherine
    Member

    How interesting that the Tomek house was built in 1904, and the Coonley buildings were built over the course of 1907 to 1912. Here is a 1908 shot of the Coonley interior, I suppose of the main house:

    Posted Thursday Mar 15, 2007 17:25 #
  3. MikeT
    Member

    I recall this interior of the Rookery, designed by FLW, when I led the 5th graders on their DT archi-tour.

    http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Illinois/Rookery/DSCN2111_Rookery.JPG

    tomek

    http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Illinois/Tomek/DSCN2301_Tomek.JPG"

    falling water

    Posted Thursday Mar 15, 2007 18:42 #
  4. MikeT
    Member

    another nice interior (unity temple)

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/UnityTempleInterior.jpg

    Posted Thursday Mar 15, 2007 23:26 #
  5. spatny
    Member

    Mike - that's one of the great rooms in all the world. Period.

    Posted Thursday Mar 15, 2007 23:28 #
  6. Catherine
    Member

    Yes, I even love the paint job in the Unity, all chosen by FW himself.

    Posted Friday Mar 16, 2007 14:28 #

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