This year marks the 75th anniversary of Fallingwater, the much- acclaimed Frank Lloyd Wright house built for department-store magnate Edgar J. Kaufmann in the Laurel Highlands. Widely considered Wright's masterpiece, it has influenced legions of architects, and at least one painter. That painter is Felix de la Concha, who spent an entire year, between 2005 and 2006, painting the house "en plein air." That is outside (and inside the house), braving the elements throughout all four seasons.
is 75 years young this year. The grande dame of Bear Run in Fayette County seems just as innovative and breath- taking today as it must have been all those years ago when Frank Lloyd Wright presented it as a little weekend retreat for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Kaufmann. The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy hosted a diamond anniversary celebration on Saturday evening. As director Linda Waggoner said, "What is a celebration without a fabulous party?
The house named Fallingwater is famous as one of Frank Lloyd Wright's timeless works, one of the most architecturally significant private homes in the United States. Its fame spread as its owner, department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann and family, hosted many guests and dinner parties at the estate, 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. But one person key to the splendid times at Fallingwater hadn't gotten much attention until recently, with the publication of "The Fallingwater Cookbook.
The office came into being in 1951, when [Frank Lloyd Wright] decided to share rented space with a former apprentice, Aaron Green. The monarchical and paranoid Wright wasn't normally a big sharer, but Green was the only architect who had ever brought Wright commissions instead of trying to steal them. The older architect expressed his gratitude by designing, with Green's aid, a compact but sophisticated and angular plywood interior for a third-floor space on Bush Street in San Francisco. It was a business pied-a-terre for Wright when he was on the move "in California. In 1988, Green sold the office, which went first to pizza magnate and Wright aficionado Thomas Monaghan, before coming to rest, fully reassembled, at the Carnegie. Really though, I'm intrigued by Wright projects on the mov...
... once had our own Wright-designed office for Edgar Kaufmann, built for the Downtown department store,...
On a scale of one to 10, the Kaufinanns were a 12. They treated their "help" like family. Everything they ate, the "help" ate. And it was only the very best for the Kaufmanns. She also said they were so kind to their help, that twice a year, Mr. [Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr.] would hire people to put a dust repellent around the house so that the maids would not have to work so hard. "Mrs. Kaufmann did not like frozen food or vegetables. She liked things fresh," she recalls. "So instead of wasting them, I suggested that they be given to a home for colored children and she agreed. We packed up the food and took it to the home. "They say, [Elsie Henderson] why don't you join Covenant and I say no. I belonged to Bethel since before I was born," she says. "I make sure I always send my tithes."
Pittsburgh is far from Palm Springs, Calif. Yet the two places have something in common -- homes commissioned by Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann (1885-1955). Most are well aware that Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater was commissioned by Kaufmann, and served as the family's summer house. But he also commissioned Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to build another landmark house, completed in 1947, in Palm Springs, where the family wintered.
Our Friends in Delaware said we shouldn't miss a visit to Fallingwater, a vacation "cottage" designed for department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. in 1935 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. While we had to go out of our way to find this architectural marvel, it proved to be one of the highlights of our trip. Of course, I was interested in seeing Fallingwater because architecture was in my blood. In fact, for the first two years of my college education I majored in it. Sharon wanted to see the famous site because buildings over or around water always fascinate her.
Elsie Henderson was the cook at Fallingwater, the famed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed summer home of Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann. Here's one of the classic American desserts from "The Fallingwater Cookbook," by Suzanne Martinson (University of Pittsburgh Press, $30), which I wrote about in today's Taste section. Blueberry Lattice Pie
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, in Mill Run, Pa., where they celebrated the actor's upcoming birthday, Fallingwater's curator of education said. The unique home spans Mill Run creek, which flows through woods about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Wright built the home for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr. in the 1930s. The American Institute of Architects voted it the "Building of the 20th Century.
rustymarks@wvgazette.com MILL RUN, Pa. - Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 1935 as a summer retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, founder of the Kaufmann's department store chain. An icon since it was constructed, Fallingwater has become possibly the best-known house ever built by the world's best-known architect.
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