Fallingwater Rising Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

Name: Fallingwater Rising Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
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ISBN: 9780375710155

ISBN-10: 0375710159

ISBN-13: 9780375710155

Edition: 2003

Authors: Franklin Toker

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Fallingwater Risingis a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul–“the smartest retailer in America”–and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



A Fallingwater Timeline


Prologue: Approaching Fallingwater



The Dead Man of Modern Architecture Plans a Comeback



E. J. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh Suffers Humiliation of Another Sort



Bear Run: The Land Awaiting



Frank Lloyd Wright Seeks a Client, Gets a Patron



The Design of Fallingwater Struggles Nine Months to Be Born



Raising Fallingwater



Fallingwater Gets an Interior



Fabricating Fallingwater I: The Hype That Sold It



Fabricating Fallingwater II: The Buzz That Made America Buy It



The Kaufmanns Showcase Fallingwater, and Vice Versa



The Renaissance Prince in Winter



Edgar Kaufmann Jr., True Lord of Fallingwater


Epilogue: Fallingwater for Ourselves


Author's Note


Source Notes


Index


Illustration Credits