Designing/implementing a small frame for a client's Frank Lloyd Wright house numbers was a pleasant little project after the pesky chair reproduction ... and the "0"'s orientation would make a good Trivia question.:
Craftsman Style House Number Frame
Oct 28, 2006
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Drains nicely.
Regards,
Tom Watson
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
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Very attractive. We live in a Deck House which takes a lot of inspiration from Wright's prarie style. That would like nice at our house too.
I like it. It upholds that thing FLW always did. Bust the conventions in search of a more playful look. The convention that the 'o' is always a bit bigger that its neighbours, was handled FLW's way... make it smaller instead. His hits were always way bigger than his plentyful misses. I always admired the chances he took. "you can't get to second base and keep one foot on first."
r---> who has a huge library of FLW books. Him and Gropius... Mies...Klee...Piet.....
used to work for Dominos Pizza and the Ann Arbor headquarters was FLW inspired. From the highway you'd see a single story and a wide, low roof. The building is actually three storys and houses a humungo refrigerator, dough factory, training facilities, museum(s), company stores and offices and a LOT of rental space.
If you surf over to the Smithsonian website you can look at a number of his sketches and so on.
Bill
look here or there. This morning I went to look at the number frame and then saw the desk, a table, another table, the new kitchen, and on and on. Very impressive to say the least!
J
Thanks for the kind words, Joe.
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