Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up [Hardcover]

Iain Thomson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002

Using the latest in paper engineering, this book brings to life six of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous buildings. Includes the Robie House in Chicago, the Charles Ennis House, Fallingwater, the Johnson's Wax administrative building and research tower, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press; First edition (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571456902
• ISBN-13: 978-1571456908
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 12 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #941,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dignity, Spendour, and Grandeur., July 19, 2002

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George&M (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up (Hardcover)

This book of Pop-ups, side by side with the building photographs and original plans and drawings, show all the beauty and majesty of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous buildings. It's done with grace, and beauty, and style befitting the nature and purpose of the book. The pop-ups are elegant, simple, and yet breathtaking.

Like most pop-up books, it is fragile, paper engineering being what it is. I have yet to see a pop-up book that isn't as fragile as a flower. You should keep this book out of the reach of children. But, it should make a beautiful coffee table item for thoughtful adults, but again, it's destined to be a wonderful collectors item, so only take it out for special occasions.

I read Dominic's review and completely disagree. As a pop-up book collector, I expect pop-ups to be only as complex or realistically depicted as makes sense to its art and that of the story. The pop-ups cleverly give you the illusion of standing back and viewing the structures from a great distance as opposed to viewing a 3 dimentional, detailed miniature.

It works beautifully.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up, January 10, 2003

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Caroline Leone BookServices "Caroline" (Canfield, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up (Hardcover)

I have collected pop-up books for 35 years and must disagree with Dominic. Yes, the book is fragile, nearly all large pop-up books are (most books this size will develop splits in the gutters if you are not extremely careful). I feel the pop-ups are in keeping with Wright's work. I especially enjoyed the accompanying text and plans. I'm very happy to include this in my collection.

75 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is quite insulting to Mr. Wright, May 17, 2002

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Dominic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up (Hardcover)

When I first saw the book listing and read about the "latest in pop-up engineering" I had high hopes for this book. However, that hope quickly turns into disgust the minute I opened it. The book is poorly designed. The pop-up buildings are designed with some cheap software that fills trees with cheesy moire patterns, buildings with tastelss line arts and washed out colors. The binding of the book is so poor that it began to fall apart before I opened it. The paper engineering part is also mediocre. Most buildings don't actually pop-up. Instead it's just got some poorly die-cut panels that "float" in front of flatly printed images. With the recent dramatic improvement to pop-up books such as Harry Potter's Howart Carassel and the pop-up book of phobia, this book is mundane and boring. Publishing such a ill-conceived and executed book on Frank Lloyd Wright is an insult to our country's architectural history.