Friday, November 30, 2012

Not Hollyhock House

Driveway retaining wall.
Identified as Residence "A" or a guest house on maps. Dunno if FLW designed it or what.

8 comments:

  1. Wow, where is this? It's awesome.

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  2. I'm no FLW expert but it does look like his style details and angles. I especially like the electrode look of that lamppost.

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  3. Actually, I kind of doubt that Wright did the guest house Some of the detailing is reminiscent, but the overall configuration doesn't really conform to Wright's idiom, especially the sloping roof.

    I suspect it was more the work of Rudolph Schindler, who was expediting Wright's work in Southern California at the time.

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  4. Non-Expert Editor:
    Yezzz, does look like flunky stuff. That thing sticking out is the only real architecture besides the line of decorative stuff. Actually figgered it might have been servants quarters, but maybe not.

    Lamppost is pretty recent.

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  5. Geezz...the zombies around here are smarter than I am.

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  6. Amateur Editor:
    He is a specialized (&, we hope) licensed zombie.

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  7. Wright's work is a professional, albeit casual, interest of mine.

    I suspect I have been in more of his buildings than almost anyone who isn't an architectural historian or Taliesin archivist.

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  8. Geezz...the zombies around here are smarter than I am.

    I aspire to be Weird.

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