From Architectural Digest:
Welcome to the Ennis House, one of the Los Angeles Hills' most legendary homes. At $23M, this Mayan revival Frank Lloyd Wright house has been featured in movies like 'Blade Runner' and is full of furniture designed by Wright himself. Join real estate agent Rayni Williams as she takes you on a tour of the entire house.
It's a bit off the beaten path, but if you find yourself anywhere near Racine, WI (just a bit south of Milwaukee) you could not do better than to stop at the SC Johnson headquarters, where a new gallery devoted to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright is opening this week. The initial offering – a broad meditation on Wright's most popular Prairie-style work – will run for a year, to be followed by other exhibits focusing on various aspects of the architect and designer's work.
Several buildings at the SC Johnson campus are Wright creations, so you'll want to schedule a tour to see those as well.
This wonderful FLW property – built in the "deluxe" Usonian style on a beautiful 80-acre lot – is just a few miles from Fallingwater. Along with the extensive sculpture garden, it is open for public tours.
The House on Kentuck Knob was designed in 1954 and completed in 1956 for I. N. and Bernardine Hagan, friends of the Kaufmans, for whom Wright built Fallingwater. The home, build of tidewater cypress, glass and 800 tons of local sandstone – and a very striking copper roof – is situated in western Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, and includes a gorgeous view of the Youghiogheny River gorge and the surrounding hills.
The Hagans lived in the house for 30 years, and sold it to Baron Peter Palumbo, an English developer, art collector and architecture conservationist, in 1986.
Thanks to Douglas Sanders’ wonderful Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog for reminding us of this very pretty and unique home!
The always-dependable Douglas Anders notes on his Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog that there will be two good FLW-related documentaries on Wisconsin Public Television this week, one tonight and one Wednesday:
Expo: Magic of the White City
is on tonight at 8pm. I saw this documentary a few months ago and it’s
not bad (despite the cheesey historical re-enactments). Some of the
photographs and other images are jaw-dropping awesome — including some
of the Japanese section (the Ho-o-den) that so influenced Frank Lloyd
Wright.Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo will air
Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm. this hour long documentary follows the
friendship of Wright and Darwin Martin, and the buildings that they
built in Buffalo. This is worth watching, but I thought that it was too
short — an hour isn’t long enough to do justice to the three buildings
Wright build for Martin (the brevity of the Larkin Building segment
will make you weep). But it is still a good effort, and great
introduction to this aspect of Wright’s life.