Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly
Monday, September 10, 2007
Fallingwater - Virtually
As an architect's daughter, who grew up in a house where we thought Frank Lloyd Wright was "Uncle Frank"...
This is an elegant and startling tribute to his most famous work. And for someone who could probably deliver the docent's tour for as many times as I've visited this place - it's never looked so good.
Nice, but I would have liked to see more interiors and a bit more of the guest house. Though in fairness, this is a hell of a lot better than a postcard.
ACW: Agreed, and the Diego Rivera sketches in the guest house - some of the best I've seen. It would have been good to show a human in scale to the interiors. Even when I was a teenager - I had to duck going through passages and up and down the stairs.
Nice, but I would have liked to see more interiors and a bit more of the guest house. Though in fairness, this is a hell of a lot better than a postcard.