Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss /
McCrea, Ron,
Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss / Ron McCrea. - 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Taliesin I: lost and found -- From Tuscany to Taliesin -- "The beloved valley" -- Building Taliesin -- Life together -- Transformations.
"Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright's "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end"--
9780870206375 (e-book) 0870206370 (e-book)
FA1561C3-4861-4B25-8492-DC14DEBC675F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2012021754
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 --Homes and haunts--Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914 --Homes and haunts--Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wisc.)
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)
ARCHITECTURE--General.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Residential.
ARCHITECTURE--History--General.
ARCHITECTURE--History--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE--Individual Architects & Firms--General.
ARCHITECTURE--Landscape.
ARCHITECTURE--Regional.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Artists, Architects, Photographers.
HISTORY--State & Local--Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)--United States
HISTORY--20th Century.--United States
PHOTOGRAPHY--Subjects & Themes--Architectural & Industrial.
PHOTOGRAPHY--Subjects & Themes--Historical.
Homes.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Architecture.
Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
NA737.W7 / .M365 2012eb
720.92
HIS.2:T 36/2012
Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss / Ron McCrea. - 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Taliesin I: lost and found -- From Tuscany to Taliesin -- "The beloved valley" -- Building Taliesin -- Life together -- Transformations.
"Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright's "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end"--
9780870206375 (e-book) 0870206370 (e-book)
FA1561C3-4861-4B25-8492-DC14DEBC675F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2012021754
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 --Homes and haunts--Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914 --Homes and haunts--Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Borthwick, Mamah Bouton, 1869-1914.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wisc.)
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)
ARCHITECTURE--General.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Residential.
ARCHITECTURE--History--General.
ARCHITECTURE--History--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE--Individual Architects & Firms--General.
ARCHITECTURE--Landscape.
ARCHITECTURE--Regional.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Artists, Architects, Photographers.
HISTORY--State & Local--Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)--United States
HISTORY--20th Century.--United States
PHOTOGRAPHY--Subjects & Themes--Architectural & Industrial.
PHOTOGRAPHY--Subjects & Themes--Historical.
Homes.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Architecture.
Wisconsin--Spring Green.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
NA737.W7 / .M365 2012eb
720.92
HIS.2:T 36/2012