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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:26 pm    Post subject: LA Times article about the FLW Ennis House Reply with quote

http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-landmark-houses-ennis-house,0,4452338.htmlstory

Has some good pictures, and also talks about the blocks being a stylized "G" and even taken from Masonic symbols.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing Andy...as I said before: the house is, alas, a poisoned gift...you'll be spending hundred of thousand of dollars to just maintain the structure. Lloyd Wright Jr. may have the proper philosophy: i.e. the house has to have an owner, but I don't know of any business man that will sink (loss) that much money in a structure (albeit worth keeping) without some kind of return (I don't think that renting it for a few movies a year will cut it). What I'm worry about now is that no-one will buy it...and then what? Hopefully, someone will step to the plate...hopefully Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

joberg wrote:
What I'm worry about now is that no-one will buy it...and then what?


Maybe, It'll be bought by Japanese millionaires, taken apart piece by piece and transported to Japan! Shocked


This article is actually about 'La Miniatura', before anybody panics!

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/27/entertainment/la-et-0827-wright-houses-20100827
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh and any excuse to post a photo of the Ennis House. I love this one.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow...great photo!

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is damn sexy. I've never seen that photo before. Did you take that Art?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

panaflex wrote:
That is damn sexy. I've never seen that photo before. Did you take that Art?


I wish!

No and you've reminded me that I didn't credit the photographer. Confused

there was a problem with linking to Flickr so I rehosted it.

coryfischer took it.

Here's the set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coryfischer/sets/72157622312540329/
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Art Deckard wrote:
joberg wrote:
What I'm worry about now is that no-one will buy it...and then what?


Maybe, It'll be bought by Japanese millionaires, taken apart piece by piece and transported to Japan! Shocked


This article is actually about 'La Miniatura', before anybody panics!*

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/27/entertainment/la-et-0827-wright-houses-20100827




*not that losing 'La Miniatura' wouldn't be a tragedy.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know it would be traumatic for FLLW (if he was alive today)to see his houses dissapear altogether...but knowing how much Japanese are fans of this American architecte I have no qualms seeing " La Miniatura" go to Japan and most probably with the same care as to reproduce the kind of gardens and reflecting pool that is now part of the whole experience of owning that house
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