Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This beautiful interior design coffee table book offers a fresh focus on the human-scaled rooms and decor of this master architect's evocative designs, with over 300 stunning images.

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. Wright was an early proponent of "total design"--unsatisfied with what was available in designing a given space or home, he invented what was needed. Wright developed a language of architectural detail and styling that is unique and which extended to everything from tables and easy chairs to stonework and stained glass "light screens." This approach was manifested distinctly in each of his residential projects.

This architecture and interior design book offers the reader an immersion into Wright's work by means of extraordinary artful detail in intimately explored rooms and spaces. From the Oak Park Home and Studio in Illinois to the majestically appointed Darwin D. Martin House with its abundance of art glass, including Wright's famous "Tree of Life" and "Wisteria" designs, this luxurious volume ranges over the whole of Wright's oeuvre. It highlights a number of Wright masterpieces, including Hollyhock House, the mysterious Aztec-like home and arts complex built on a hill in Los Angeles; the Dana House, with its luminous "butterfly" transom glass; and the fabled living room at Fallingwater.

Review Quotes

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 BRONZE Winner for Architecture

"Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms presents the warm interior spaces and exceptional design work of this beloved American master. The book offers the reader an immersion into this work by means of extraordinary artful detail in intimately explored rooms and spaces. From the Oak Park Home and Studio in Illinois to the majestically appointed Darwin D. Martin House with its abundance of art glass, including Wright's famous "Tree of Life" and "Wisteria" designs, this volume ranges over the whole of Wright's oeuvre..." -Editor at Large

"...Sophisticated volume, sure to enthrall architectural aficionados and casual enthusiasts alike..." -Bask

"...his book goes to show Wright was just as concerned with the interiors of his designs as he was the outside. Frank Lloyd Wright The Rooms gives us a look inside the fabled homes he designed and shows us how he designed what he felt was needed when he couldn't find it. From furniture to lighting and windows, Wright designed all of it. This book takes us on a journey through Wright's work from the living room of Fallingwater to Hollyhock House in Los Angeles" -Tabulous Design

About the Author

Margo Stipe is curator and registrar of collections at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, and the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Interactive Portfolio. Alan Weintraub is a widely published architectural photographer whose books include Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright American Master. David A. Hanks is the author of the seminal 1979 volume The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.