Wright Chat

[M0B1U5]

Hi there people. A recent book purchase made me aware of the Maynard Buehler house - and the 3 photos I have seen make it look extremely attractive.



Googling for images turns up only two, rather poor quality amateur shots.



I understand the house was burned down in 1994, and that it was lovingly, and completely rebuilt, to the original specifications, with one of FLW's apprentices supervising the job for Taliesen: he even went so far as to manufacture the original light fittings himself!



Can anyone shed any light on the house, the rebuilding project, or find me some images online? That'd be great. Thanks all.

[Reidy]

The Conservancy's newsletter did an article on the fire and rebuilding a few years back. You could contact them directly for a back issue. (Now that I have the floor, I want to remind everyone who uses this board to join and contribute.)



Zimmerman and Gebhard's The California Architecture of FLlW has some good photos. Storrer's FLlW Companion has floor plans of most of the buildings. The FLlW Foundation at Taliesin West in Scottsdale will sell plans and drawing for copying costs.



Peter

[M0b1u5]

Hey Thanks! I ordered the Frank Lloyd Wright Companion CD-ROM.



What a bargain!

[jim]

I do not know of any on-line resources, but there was an excellent article in the September/Octoberr 1997 issue of "Preservation" magazine, the magazine of the national trust for Historic Preservation. This includes FLlW's original renderings (2) and 7 color photographs taken during the reconstruction, plus a very well written article about the original owners and the Taliesin apprentice, Walter Olds, who was the original clerk and also the architect for the rebuild.



More recently, there was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2005, Section F "Home and Garden", page 1 on Mrs. Buehler (Mr. has died since the 1997 Preservation article) with 5 so-so color photographs (with the usual murky quality of newspaper color photos, and not that well composed). The photographer was Lea Suzuki at the Chronicle. There is an on-line version of the Chronicle but I have not seen it.



I am assuming that the pictures you saw are from the Storer book.



And yes, it is a stunning house.