I had a similar experience as a young child at Robert Service’s house/museum.
Today the neighbour kids are playing in our yard, using spray bottles filled with water to dye the fresh snow. It is one of the girl’s 9th birthdays.
They asked if they could spray the snow, and I said they could make art of our front yard.
Then one of the young girls said “can we write inappropriate words like poop?” I laughed and thanked them for asking and said I’d prefer kind words in my yard, but love that there is a rogue party of 9 year olds who feel safe making art and asking questions in this small world of friendly neighbours who watch out for them.
I visited Hemingway’s house outside Havana. My cool curator story is talking to a lady by the pool who told me about his cats, and I’d been in Cuba talking to locals for enough days that I could understand *most* of what she said (the accent is incredibly different than the Mexican Spanish I’m used to). And there was an amazingly gorgeous thunderstorm.
I was on a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s house and the tour guide was a middle aged woman and even as she described to us what an ornery bastard he was she was so clearly in deep love of him.
Oh I actually meant compound… Taliasen West outside of Scottsdale, AZ. Highly recommend it was an architect school and students had to build their own dwellings. The main house was so freaking cool. Canvas roof.
I just finished reading a book on FLW. Really impressed with his design too. The chairs. Lamps. Small elements of décor. Last night I went to town to see the 1984 Dune and some of the set design was very Frank Lloyd Wright.
There was a little theater at Taliesan West and the guide claimed he invented floor lighting there that they use in all movie theaters. I also liked how he hated foyers and lobby’s as a waste of space so he designed his entryways to push people into the actual hang out space. In the big room there was seating all around the walls, at a perfect angle like an Adirondack chair, apparently it could seat 75 comfortably. Real cool.
I had a similar experience as a young child at Robert Service’s house/museum.
Today the neighbour kids are playing in our yard, using spray bottles filled with water to dye the fresh snow. It is one of the girl’s 9th birthdays.
They asked if they could spray the snow, and I said they could make art of our front yard.
Then one of the young girls said “can we write inappropriate words like poop?” I laughed and thanked them for asking and said I’d prefer kind words in my yard, but love that there is a rogue party of 9 year olds who feel safe making art and asking questions in this small world of friendly neighbours who watch out for them.
That's a very sweet moment.
I visited Hemingway’s house outside Havana. My cool curator story is talking to a lady by the pool who told me about his cats, and I’d been in Cuba talking to locals for enough days that I could understand *most* of what she said (the accent is incredibly different than the Mexican Spanish I’m used to). And there was an amazingly gorgeous thunderstorm.
Don't they have an extra toe?
Yep!
I was on a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s house and the tour guide was a middle aged woman and even as she described to us what an ornery bastard he was she was so clearly in deep love of him.
Oh sweet. Which of the houses?
Oh I actually meant compound… Taliasen West outside of Scottsdale, AZ. Highly recommend it was an architect school and students had to build their own dwellings. The main house was so freaking cool. Canvas roof.
Oh man I love that one. Never been. Yet anyway
I just finished reading a book on FLW. Really impressed with his design too. The chairs. Lamps. Small elements of décor. Last night I went to town to see the 1984 Dune and some of the set design was very Frank Lloyd Wright.
There was a little theater at Taliesan West and the guide claimed he invented floor lighting there that they use in all movie theaters. I also liked how he hated foyers and lobby’s as a waste of space so he designed his entryways to push people into the actual hang out space. In the big room there was seating all around the walls, at a perfect angle like an Adirondack chair, apparently it could seat 75 comfortably. Real cool.
I can't even imagine the quality of life increase that a home theater (especially a beautiful one) would manifest.