Wright Chat

[KKubesh]

I am currently in a course and I would like to construct the building in 3D, which I don't think was every constructed for Arch Oboler. It has been my understanding as time passed Arch Oboler settled with the Gate House and his wife's retreat. The building I am curious about I have seen featured a number of times, but no plans. The link to the image I am referencing is http://www.poster-bargains.com/giant/824212.php . Does anyone have or know any information on this building? I would even love to just get more views of this structure.

I am limited on time for the course, but I have gained a lot of personal interest in this structure, so please feel free to post well after this chat was posted.

Thank you in advance.

[Reidy]

The floor plan has been published somewhere. I've seen it here on Wright Chat.

The FLlW Foundation archive in Scottsdale has been willing, at least in the past, to sell photocopies of drawings for copying costs.

[KKubesh]

Thanks Reidy for the information.

I was able to get a hold of the shop there and they said had plans of one house (they didn't specify which one). The cost is about $500 dollars... I will continue looking through the different post to see if I can spot it.

[SDR]

Here are plates 380, 384, and 385 from Monograph 6:

[John]

Don't go through the shop, go to the Archives.[/u]

[KKubesh]

SDR, thank you so much for taking the time to get these to me. May I ask where you got these from, is there more available?

I am really excited to start working on this project now. Thanks again.

[SDR]

These images are found in "Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941," which is volume 6 in the series. These books were published in the 1980s by A.D.A. EDITA, Tokyo. Volume Six appeared in 1986. The contents were edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa, with text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.

These volumes are no longer in print. As far as I know, a single edition was published, available hardbound or paperbound.

SDR

[Rood]

Were not the same Eaglefeather drawings also published in the January 1938 Architectural Forum ... the issue devoted to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright? It's one issue I don't have, alas, but I swear they are there ... perhaps in several fold-out pages?

Does anyone know?

At any rate, the issue should be available in the collection of any large library ... city, university ... .

[Roderick Grant]

1938 is too early for Oboler. It's in the 1948 Forum, page 99, two plans and two perspectives. But if KKubesh prints SDR's images, all else he needs is a plan of the ground floor.

[Paul Ringstrom]

Michael Miner's new film Romanza has quite a few images of the refurbished Obler property along with the information that the building to the right of the entrance will be built (not Eaglefeather). He said it was called "Continuation."

[Macrodex]

Pfeiffer's Frank Lloyd Wright Design: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings [2011] has a perspective and the drawing of the section; as well as a sketch by Wright of a perspective and original plans.

[SDR]

I haven't found a lower-level floor plan. In addition to what I posted, Monograph 6 also contains a pencil perspective and two sheets showing three elevation drawings, a larger-scale section drawing, and a romantic color-pencil perspective, apparently incomplete, which seems to incorporate at least one image of the full moon . . .

SDR

[SDR]

Here is the night-view rendering. Note the interior lighting spreading a glow on the underside of the deck. This drawing is presented in Monograph 6, at a somewhat cooler color temperature. If the blank circle at the right, in the unfinished (?) portion of the sky, is the moon, I'm not sure what to make of the rounded shape in the heavens to the left . . .

[JimM]

EF lower plan from the 1948 Forum......

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[Rood]

Yes, the lower floor, if we except Oboler's private hideaway below the master bedroom. It's shown but not identified on one of the sections.