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Originally Posted by Zeke
I wouldn't say that about Fallingwater. But many of them do seem institutional.
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Wright often required complete authority over the furnishing of his homes. It was a package deal in many cases.
Straight-backed dining chairs, geometric couches and loungers, completely and totally impractical niches, coves and fireplaces. Inaccessible kitchens, dysfunctional bathrooms, hundreds of square feet of uninsulated glazing, stone and concrete surfaces requiring constant vigilance against mold and mildew. Complete abandonment of traffic flow and remarkably drafty floor plans.
But, and this is indisputable, his most innovative interpretations of organic exteriors and interiors are such that his eouvre is a brutal and completely conscious challenge to fractal nature. He compliments nature by his command over it. And it is beautiful.