John Ericksonīut he dug in his heels over their objections to the length of the very long living room that stretched so regally across the glass-walled center of the house. Also included, images of a Wright House in Virginia Beach. He completed his design early the following year, but not until after an exhaustive correspondence addressed such issues as adding a separate dining room, sizing the living room and reorienting the house away from a nearby road.Ī new exhibit at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center explores a family's 50-year-long love affair with their dream house, a 2,200-square-foot work of art designed by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Not long after signing a contract in 1954, the architect responded with a book of sketches and a 2,200-square-foot floor plan. Inventorying their needs room by room, the Christians included lengthy descriptions of each space's furnishings, storage requirements and likely uses.Įvery feature of the surrounding landscape - including the number and location of trees - was cataloged, too, for a comprehensive document that also provided Wright with his prospective clients' pictures and biographies. A century after Henri Matisse and the Fauvists began their revolutionary experiments with the raw language of color, the legacy of abstract and non-objective art is still being weighed by artists and historians as well as viewers.īarely more than 50 years ago, the rule of the Abstract Expressionists.īut it still took them three years to comply with the architect's request for what became a detailed 28-page list of "What we need for how we live" - then send it to his Wisconsin office for study.
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