Frank Lloyd Wright LETTERHEAD Johnson Wax Building FLLW Start Price USD 68.50 Current Price USD 68.50 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 13, 2008 End Time Saturday, December 13, 2008 Location Maryland See more about 'Frank Lloyd Wright LETTERHEAD Johnson Wax Building FLLW' Description ORIGINAL FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING LETTERHEAD JOHNSON WAX BUILDING Dated 1941. Measures 9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. In good condition with two folds, typed and hand-written notations. Shipping @ $3.95 anywhere Mainland USA; Expedited and insured shipping available, international bidders welcome. Johnson Wax Building Commentary "Both the Administration Building (also called the Johnson Wax Building) and the later Research Tower...are of brick and glass. The main office work space is articulated by dendriform columns capable of supporting six times the weight imposed upon them, a fact Wright had to demonstrate in order to obtain a building permit. The glass is not in panes, but in tubing, and several layers of different sizes are used to admit light but no view....Wright designed all the original furniture for the building, including the three-legged secretary chairs, which tip over if one does not sit with correct posture. The tower is totally enclosed and does not allow for horizontal expansion of work space." — William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog. project 237. The Creator's Words "What is architecture anyway? Is it the vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying taste of the various lords of mankind? I think not. No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. So architecture I know to be a Great Spirit....Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they change. That is really architecture." — Frank Lloyd Wright. from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p7. "There in the Johnson Building you catch no sense of enclosure whatever at any angle, top or sides....Interior space comes free, you are not aware of any boxing in at all. Restricted space simply is not there. Right there where you've always experienced this interior constriction you take a look at the sky!" —Frank Lloyd Wright. from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p15. Details 1525 Howe StreetRacine, Wisconsin 53403 American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1974 Pay me securely through PayPal! Place a Bid!