Frank Lloyd Wright Glass

Frank Lloyd Wright Glass
by Doreen Ehrlich

Frank Lloyd Wright Glass
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Author: Doreen Ehrlich
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09-15
ISBN: 0762408812
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Courage Books

Book Reviews of Frank Lloyd Wright Glass

Book Review: Spectacular Photographs and Essays of Brilliant Glass Use!
Summary: 5 Stars

This book deserves more than five stars for overall excellence and its ability to extend your appreciation of how glass can improve our ability to enjoy public buildings and homes. The photographs and essays could not have been better, more in point, or easy to understand.

If you are like me, you feel that Frank Lloyd Wright's use of glass was one of his most distinctive and attractive features. He employed glass to create a "quality of repose" by diffusing light, and using "window curtains" to separate spaces without denying light by employing patterns in the glass. In doing this, he wanted to create a "vista without, vista within." For many of his urban homes (especially those in Oak Park, Illinois), there was no opportunity to have much of a vista without. In those circumstances, he emphasized creating internal vistas, and using access to the sky through skylights and elevated windows for the external ones. In the S.C. Johnson Administrative Building, he relied on pyrex glass to let the light enter while providing structural support. The geometric shapes (often in color) on his art glass also added eye appeal. The book contains many wonderful designs such as his famous tree of life and of hollyhocks. Glass was also an integral part of his lighting fixtures, which often evoke Japanese lanterns.

The bulk of Mr. Wright's buildings are in private hands, which you cannot visit very easily to see the insides. So much of the beautiful use of glass is hidden except in the external windows viewable from ground level. This book is a remarkable resource to overcome that handicap. If you are like me, you will come away especially impressed with the Dana-Thomas house glass in Springfield, Illinois.

The book is superb for beautifully displaying and exploring these many dimensions of Mr. Wright's use of glass.

After you finish enjoying this volume, I suggest that you think about how you could use some of Mr. Wright's ideas to make where you live more filled with vistas and repose. For example, can you use cellophane and constuction paper to create art glass effects when placed atop windows?

See the light in more beautiful ways!

Summary of Frank Lloyd Wright Glass

The 20th century's most influential architect utilized glass in a number of ways to distinguish his designs of churches, public buildings, and private residences. This comprehensive book traces Wright's innovative use of art glass in windows, lighting, interior decor, furnishings, and his famed Luxifer prisms-and provides a chronoligical pictorial survey of the glass in each documented building designed by Wright.

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