Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” was designed in 1935 for department store owner, Edgar J. Kaufman in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. The home served as a mountain retreat for the Kaufmann family until 1963, when it was entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The main house was constructed from 1936 to 1938, and the guest house was built later in 1939. The final cost of the home, including the architect’s fee and furnishings, totaled at $155,000. The color palette for the home was simple, consisting of only light ochre and Cherokee red, to create Wright’s now signature unified and organic feel. Since the home has been open to the public, over 4 million people have come to see Wright’s incredible design.

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Interesting facts about Fallingwater:

-In January of 1938, Fallingwater was the featured cover of Time Magazine.

-Edgar Kaufman disagreed with some of Wright’s designs and had them reviewed by a team of consulting engineers. After Wright received their insulting report, he withdrew from the project until Kauffman gave in to Wright’s original designs, and the engineering firm’s report was buried within one of the stone walls of the house.

-Edgar Kaufman and his wife, Liliane, were actually cousins.

-The contractor of the house, Walter Hall, went behind Lloyd’s back and doubled the amount of reinforcement within the first level’s floor.

-In the past, mold has been an issue within the house which sits in the humid environment directly above the stream

-Lloyd once said to Kaufman that “The visit to the waterfall in the woods stays with me and a domicile has taken shape in my mind to the music of the stream.”

Sources:

www.fallingwater.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSRXHl9RbbU