Wright Chat

DavidC · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 3184 Location: Oak Ridge, TN

This thread is purely for entertainment purposes only. In it, we can post links to the myriad of objects - big and small - that are given the "Frank Lloyd Wright" label - no matter how far removed from reality or how absurd and tenuous it may be.

Let me start out the fun with this current one from eBay:

VINTAGE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT STYLE METAL MAILBOX

David

Rood · Joined: 30 Oct 2010 Posts: 424 Location: Goodyear, AZ 85338

I like anything from Ms. Jeannie Ology's Frick and Frack Scraps collection, especially the Prairie Style Table Centerpiece (to see it ... please scroll down).

http://msjeannieology.wordpress.com/tag/frank-lloyd-wright/

KevinW · Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 1032

Then there is the "Urban Usonian"...because of course....it has an orange floor.
http://www.dwell.com/articles/Urban-Usonian.html
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m.perrino · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 219

the examples are already, 'too much'. Bringing laughter to a dreary day. Shouldn't the FLWFDN or the Archives be contacting these people regarding the usage of the name Frank Lloyd Wright ? After all, it is al licensed trademark. Or is it legal to infer 'kind of like FLW, sort of like FLW, we want you to think it's like FLW"......???

vrd · Joined: 08 Jan 2012 Posts: 12

This has been driving me crazy for months:

http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2012/04/frank-lloyd-wright-fireplace-in-back-bay-now-151k-off.php

jmcnally · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 326

I really did LOL at the mailbox

DavidC · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 3184 Location: Oak Ridge, TN

And, of course, the never-ending parade of "Frank Lloyd Wright-style" homes:

Frank Lloyd Wright style Contemporary Home - [3:02]

Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Gated Estate - [4:47]

David

Paul Ringstrom · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 2223 Location: Mason City, IA

not very Wrightian, but a nice prairie-style house...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304388004577532992656370570.html#/1

John · Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 264

peterm · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject:

It doesn't outrage me, but at the same time, it certainly doesn't seem to serve the cause of architecture or the interests of the Wright community when a great artist's work can become confused with horrible kitsch.

Are there Picasso, Duchamp, Stravinsky, or Le Corbusier tchotchkes?

Reidy · Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 960 Location: Northern CA

Just about any museum shop sells Picasso tchotchkes. The Carpenter Center at Harvard has (or once had) a "Cafe Corbu" whose merchandise wouldn't quite qualify as tchotchkes. I once heard a disco version of The Firebird.

peterm · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:45 am Post subject:

You might be right, but nothing that i have seen in a museum shop rivals the seemingly endless assortment of poorly designed Wright related objects available for sale.

In the case of Picasso, one sees mostly books, posters and maybe some t shirts, not frosted tumblers.

Wrightgeek · Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 1548 Location: Westerville, Ohio

peterm-

If you want examples of art/artists that have been turned into all manner of tchotchkes and kitsch to the extreme, consider DaVinci's "Mona Lisa", Munch's "The Scream", Hopper's "Nighthawks", and possibly the most egregious of all, Wood's "American Gothic".

Come to think of it, in the realm of sculpture, Rodin's "The Thinker" and Michelangelo's "David" have been exploited savagely as well.

When you consider these examples, maybe FLW has not been treated so poorly by comparison?

John · Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 264

Wrightgeek · Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 1548 Location: Westerville, Ohio

For what it's worth:

http://www.cafepress.com/+mona_lisa_earring_oval_charm,576453129?cmp=knc-pla-576453129&utm_term=576453129&utm_medium=cpc%26utm_cp_signal%3d18&pid=3607873&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sem_product_feed

http://www.etsy.com/listing/9803323/reserved-for-padutchchick-statue-of