Frank Lloyd Wright’s
house Fallingwater has been photographed every which way. No wonder. It's hard to
believe that Wright designed it when he was 67 and that it reignited his career
with over 400 more projects, one of them the Guggenheim Museum. Fallingwater was almost immediately
recognised as one of the great buildings of the twentieth century; an
appearance on the cover of Time magazine in 1937 sealed the deal. First there
is the anticipation as you walk through wooded parkland towards this house that
is so familiar through photographs. And second there is the experience of being
actually inside something you know so much better from images of its exterior. Unexpectedly
we were allowed to photograph inside (a recent change no doubt brought on by
phone cameras) so we decided to concentrate on details of the texture and
finish that make up the personality of Fallingwater. Some of them you can see
here and others are on OTN Stuff.
Images: Details of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
and bottom (we couldn’t help ourselves) the money shot.
