Monday, October 19, 2009

Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park

On Saturday my dh and I went for a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park (which is located in Kirkwood, MO).

We've been interested in FLW architecture for some time now and this is the second FLW house we have toured (the other being the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, MO) in the past year.

The unique feature in the FLW Ebsworth Park house is that there are no right angles (or only a very few) - the house is built based on the equilateral parallelogram - there is even a bed shaped like one (how would you like to have to find sheets to fit that bed?)! No indoor photos were allowed otherwise I would enjoy showing the interesting furniture.

This house was built in the 1950s and all the furniture is original (designed by Frank). There is no basement and no attic but lots of beautiful wooden shelves.

We enjoyed the tour of the house...it made me want to own one just like it - minus the furniture which I thought was actually quite unattractive.

2 comments:

CanadianGrandma said...

Strange looking house! Not to my taste!

Anonymous said...

It all sound cool to me! I wish I could see inside. DD