Sunday, September 26, 2010

our first visitor! (part 3)

On Sunday, Mom, Dave, and I went back to lovely Spring Green, WI; this time to visit Taliesin, the Wisconsin summer home of Frank Lloyd Wright and site of many of the events in the book Loving Frank that I blogged about here.

Taliesin means "shining brow" and the home reflects this as it's built coming out from the hillside rather than on top of the hill.


FLW saw Taliesin as his laboratory. He experimented with new architectural techniques there and many apprentices lived and worked on the grounds.


Wright saw music and poetry in his design. Here's his Muse of Architecture statue in one of the Taliesin courtyards. The statue is also called Flower in a crannied wall and has the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem of the same name carved on the back.

There's the poem on her back. And a chord progression. So music, art, architecture and poetry all in one.
More music around Taliesin - here's windows in diminution - the red framed window panes - whole notes/half notes/quarter notes.
So beautiful! Sorry I can't show you inside the house - no photos allowed!

Thanks, Mom and Dave for indulging me! Taliesin was all I'd hoped for and more. Another fascinating note: many people - architects and caretakers - still live there. We bumped into a couple on the tour - some of them quite old and we guessed probably knew and worked with FLW themselves. 


I can't wait to go back! And I've already started another FLW historical fiction called The Women. The obsession continues!

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