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Author Legler, Dixie.

Title Prairie style : houses and gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School / text by Dixie Legler ; photographs by Christian Korab.

Imprint New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999.

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Description 207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Note "An Archetype Press book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 204) and index.
Contents At home in the prairie. Introduction -- The Prairie School -- The prairie style : the new look. Sweeping lines -- Honest materials -- Open plans -- Custom furnishings -- Substantial fireplaces -- Natural colors -- Brilliant art glass -- Integral ornament -- Indigenous landscapes -- Prairie houses and gardens : Frank Lloyd Wright. Willits House (Highland Park, Illinois. 1902) -- Stockman House (Mason City, Iowa. 1908) -- Roberts House (River Forest, Illinois. 1908, 1955) -- Laura Gale House (Oak Park, Illinois. 1909).
Prairie collegues. Andrews House (Oak Park, Illinois. 1904) / Vernon Watson -- McCready House (Oak Park, Illinois. 1908) / Robert Spencer -- Bradley House (Madison, Wisconsin. 1909) / Louis Sullivan -- Charles Purcell House (River Forest, Illinois. 1909) / William Gray Purcell -- Powers House (Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1910) / Purcell, Feick, and Elmslie -- Elliott House (Madison, Wisconsin. 1910) / George Maher -- Mess House (Winnetka, Illinois. 1912) / Walter Burley Griffin -- Hoyt House (Red Wing, Minnesota. 1913) / Purcell, Feick, and Elmslie -- Purcell-Cutts House (Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1913) / Purcell and Elmslie -- Baker House (Willmette, Illinois. 1914) / William Drummond -- Bersbach House (Willmette, Illinois. 1914) / John Van Bergen -- Clarke House (Fairfield, Iowa. 1915) / Barry Byrne.
Prairie gardens and landscapes. William Martin Garden (Oak Park, Illinois. 1909) / Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin -- Taliesin Garden (Spring Green Wisconsin. 1911-59) / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Roberts Garden (River Forest, Illinois. mid-1920s) / Jens Jensen -- Becker Garden (Highland Park, Illinois. 1926) / Jens Jensen.
Prairie communities. Millikin Place (Decatur, Illinois. 1909-10) / Frank Lloyd Wright and Marion Mahony -- Rock Crest-Rock Glen (Mason City, Iowa. 1912) / Walter Burley Griffin -- Ravine Bluffs (Glencoe, Illinois. 1915) / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Middleton Hills (Madison, Wisconsin. 1995) / Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
Subject Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Architecture, Domestic -- Middle West.
Prairie school (Architecture)
Added Author Korab, Christian.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
ISBN 1556709315

 
    
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