European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The Merin county Call. Civic Center designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright Blenda into the landscape North of Stin Francisco. Estimated $1qmillicn. He bought a bedroom or , a disassembled usunian House in a Public be Levision auction Lor $117,500. A Sirje chair for $198,000. The most Ever Lor a 20th Century chair and 34 windows from the Coonley playhouse in Riverside Lor $3 million. Wing he and Monar Trtan make an Odd couple the a Chilel obsessed with integrating by Ding with nature and inc businessman obsessed Wilh the delivery of pizza to the customer s door within 30 minutes i be Boon evangelizing Frank Lloyd Wing he ail my Monaghan says tvs never met anyone yet who has t Boon impressed " Monaghan. Says Aichi Eccl Gunnar Bukels is addicted to Frank Wright " the addiction dates Back to inc Day when Young torn Monaghan. The Best .11 a awing in his class opened a Book on Wright in a traverse City. Mich. Library he was Only 12. But i was comp solely la in with the he recalls All the a buildings so Beautiful yet so dil Lerent All to " if i to Man i wondered who is this guy9 Wright was a if dumped who believed that buildings should enrich the lives of Whoso who used them and that the to m Winch Man had dwell since classical times should be dismantled to make a dwelling place a work of Art. This is the american Opportunity Wing he wrote Wing he gleefully swept out the Nichil Clural according to historian James wars Lon filch he slipped the Cornice of its brackets and the roof of its dormers he lopped off he phony cupolas and inc Gingerbread whole Walls disappeared a j rooms ran together until a respectable person r void scarcely say whore the indoors slopped and she cult oors began " if Woehls methods Weie Radical hrs materials Wood Stone and Hryck evoked the american past. And his Long Low houses wore entered around Tho sturdy Hearth in those houses Young Monaghan who grew up in an orphanage alter his lather s Etc ill could feel at Home As he cot Oldt a. Weight s architecture meld an Ever stronger null Naclion once out on a Date Lound to was pc aching to a convert Iliof Friis parents lived in a Wright House i stopped the car right i hero in inc Middle Elihe Road and said Winch Monagh in say he was Piscina Ted a i War jul House in Ann Hinl he of d o tend in 1 Don he driveway Park and ?.l look at in her Taine cops service took him to Tokyo to Narjan skipped she traditional Soldier s Arnu Somnis m o reputed visits in War Jet a Imperial hotel when tin Rol out of inc Minnes. Monrue Hrin a Iii fun i afford to enrol in so ool and j up opening the Piza Knop Ilia became the . In a pin Devory ground tin i ". Brei i Roann pm Don no r. new corporate Headquarters in Ann Arbor Irir a miso Jan to House Monaghan s Wing he i in also plans to Orr re Musoman House on Iho Monaghan Haj been m the Oval flit of of Ilia Chiin House ii does t do anything for me " in ,.iy just standing in a Wright however ran Mol Oral experience " whatever the ultimate Merit of we jul s Bui de few would deny their Impact. One woman in n wonderful feeling of a Prim upon entering Iho Guggenheim museum s great swirling Rotunda Hjeln architect Philip Johnson complained Hal the Bounri of Rushing Waler at falling Alcor Enci cd Hio bladder even people who Don t know the difference by la try n 3 Cornice and a column Admire Wrighi r. ,. Autocratic individualism Hollywood could t i Ivin come up Vilh a better says Donald c director of the Wihl Homo and studio mus a n m Oak Park. It Wing he Logan Racli cog in Chicago in Iho Taip ihbo1., his Eaily Praince houses horizontal buildings Vilh Large Hearth?., Low pitched roofs extended Cave and Fine tic came primary sources of the a Nocturn style that would evolve in Europe. But scandal almost ended Wing he s Caiwei in i too to abandoned his Watlo and six children to run olt and Livo Wilh inc vile of a former client. Live years last she and her five children were murdered by an servant who also burned Down Wing he s Vii Homo. Taosin Wing he -.-. Hut the manage lasted Only a Lew months and the House again Buind Dawn Fundaun cd. Wing he Marne d Tor a third time and built me Thesin which so anal. by hts 65th birthday in 1332. War jul Hilmu it without Money or work was a has been of jail in launched a comeback that lasted Anol Hor Quarter Century and Pio Ducco most of his great buildings including Taliesin Wesl. His Winter Retreat school and workplace in Iho Arona desert and two of his la a buildings the Guggenheim museum and it Rainn county. Calif civic Center in his 72-year career Wright designed Aboul 1.1uo structures. 497 of them Weie Buill in 3g sales arid several foreign countries today 353 arc still standing including 307 houses and 4g Public buildings Many of the items Hughl custom designed Tor Tiese buildings now Ide Subj cos of bidding wars unwanted Juring his lifetime. In 1943, when Lum iture irom the Dana House was Pul up for auction there were no bidders it All wont Hack to the House whore u remains Kirday Scott Wiliom says to Lound Wright s color drawing of the House in los an Jeles under a Slack of old newspapers and a Cal litter Box in a new York lot tin ninth a vanity that burned Down six Mon Lis later the drawing is now in Tho museum of modern att some treasures Are still missing including Holl Noc House s living room Sci last seen when in was moved Oul Dunn a remodelling in the 1940s anal dozens of Imperial hotel Sterling Sifor Lea sols Bruce i a f rank Lloyd Grigni foundation , Sav i he thinks or Wing he would have Lound in outrageous if people Are Ireanne one no his r,h.nr-, Leonardo his designs were masterpieces Dut the , them jeeves were moan to Bondjr s i reduced i they could be aft Oidest by in dornrjl1 Oul Hai no Apo lord its i still a a lot of things i wan to get the is if. table Glosl to the gallery s hid of $594 000 vis nol my n
