Newspaper Article

Wright's Own Home: A Lifelong Work in Progress

Goldberger, Paul

1994

Overview

The house, which is in Spring Green, about 40 miles south of the Peterson Cottage, is owned by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, inheritors of Wright's assets; the foundation and Taliesin Associated Architects, as Wright's architectural practice is now known, still use it during the summer months. But these Wrightians, who spend most of their time at Wright's other headquarters, Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., have no money to properly restore the vast house and its outbuildings and keep up its 600 acres. Visiting Taliesin is an extraordinary experience. There is no better way into the soul of [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] than to tour this house, with its curious mix of institutional grandeur and cozy domesticity: If Wright saw all his houses as symbols of domestic security, as sources of inspiration and protection at the same time, he gave himself these things in spades at Taliesin. The main living hall, with its Bechstein piano and Wright-designed four-part music stand for string quartets, is a spectacular space, at once inwardly focused and projecting itself with stunning drama out into the landscape. Talies in is as perfectly sited as anything Wright ever built; it sits on the edge of a great hill, embracing it rather than commanding it. (The name, pronounced tal-ee-ESS-en, means \"shining brow\" in Welsh.)

• Publisher: New York Times Company
• Subject: ARCHITECTURE / Cheney, Mamah / GOLDBERGER, PAUL / Peterson, Seth / RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION / TALIESIN (SPRING GREEN, WIS) / Wright, Frank Lloyd / WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD (1867-1959)