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Not your typical Wright book, April 17, 2006
This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: Includes All United States and International Sites (Paperback)
This is not your typical Wright book filled with beautiful pictures for your coffee table. This is a Field Guide for the Wright aficionado who wants to see the buildings "in the flesh." It is meant to be kept in the glove compartment of your car or as a permanent part of your luggage. Maybe you should get one for both places. The star ratings indicate not only the quality of the design but also how well you can see the house from the street without treading on private property. In other words... it helps you decide if the trip to this site is worth your time and effort. The photos are generally of what you can see from the street, so that you will know you are in the Wright place! The descriptions that accompany each site are not just about the building, but usually more about the owners and their occupations and connections to other Wright clients or interesting people. You will not be able to find this historical information elsewhere. Other sites that will be of interest to the purchasers of this book are ones associated with Wright, like the Auditorium by Adler & Sullivan in downtown Chicago and some buildings that were built after Mr. Wright's death based on archived drawings. When the second edition comes out it should have a spiral binding.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Value For Money, December 27, 2005
This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: Includes All United States and International Sites (Paperback)
If excellent value for money is your primary purchase standard, then consider the difference between the old edition in four separate books @ $40 each vs. the new edition of all four books in one volume @ $40. Buy it on Amazon, and the good deal gets even better!
This is no mere reprint of four-volumes-in-one; it's a revised edition of the best field guides to Frank Lloyd Wright. Its maps show you how to get to the buildings and, of even more practical value, its star rating gives you an idea what you can see without being arrested for trespassing. In other words, it's difficult to see some of the FLW gems from the road.
Its hard to believe that the FLW field, which has been so intensively plowed for so many years by so many people, can still yield nuggets of information. Thomas A. Heinz, who has devoted his life to photographing Frank Lloyd Wright and researching his client network, digs deeper and sifts the dirt finer than anyone else. That's why his revised field guide is leavened with delightful nuggets of information about the people who populated the world of Frank Lloyd Wright you won't find elsewhere.
For example: If you read page 282, you will discover that L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, produced a rare book he printed and bound with his own hands which used as endpapers the leftover wall paper from FLW's Chauncey Williams House.
Even if you never hit the road in search of Frank Lloyd Wright, your arm-chair travels will be pleasantly rewarded with this Field Guide. If you can get out and about, this is the one book you need to take with you.
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Great book for its intended purpose, May 24, 2007
This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: Includes All United States and International Sites (Paperback)
The real value of this book is the detailed locational information, GPS coordinates, and information on how one can see the structures without tresspassing. If you are looking for historical info or pretty pictures, this isn't the book. But if you want to see as many of Wright's buildings as possible when traveling this book is the one to have so you don't waste your time travelling to places where the structures are completely off limits. Fantastic.
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