Outside the Drafting Room of Taliesin West overlooking the triangular pool.
I loved Taliesin West. We all did. Our visit was Friday with our son and his fiancée.
It wasn’t what I expected. It was so much more. I felt like I was in the presence of genius — which I was. I loved the use of space, materials, and the different feel from one building or room to another.
“Taliesin West is a look over the rim of the world.”– FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1943
https://franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
We did an hour-long self-guided tour with an app called Smartify with our own phones and earbuds. I appreciated the detail of the information. I could picture the people living and working there.
The tour took us from outside to inside Frank LLoyd Wright’s office, around the property to various pools and patios to inside a gathering room, dining room, cabaret where they watched movies, inside the drafting room and inside a Kiva. The Kiva is a round dark room, that feels like it’s underground with phenomenal lighting. They watched movies there and used it for storage when they returned to Wisconsin for the summer.
From the Taliesin website:
Wright’s beloved winter home and desert laboratory was established in 1937 and diligently handcrafted over many years into a world unto itself. Deeply connected to the desert from which it was forged, Taliesin West possesses an almost prehistoric grandeur. It was built and maintained almost entirely by Wright and his apprentices, making it among the most personal of the architect’s creations.
https://franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
Where have you visited that the experience outdid your expectations?
Looking out from Frank Lloyd Wright’s office.
