• Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
• Unknown (draughtsman)
• Emil Bach (client)

First floor plan for Emil Bach House, Chicago, Illinois

1915

- This first floor plan, with the perspective (DR1980:0060:001) and the second floor plan (DR1980:0060:003) form a set of early presentation drawings. The scale is probably 1/4" = 1' (see object file, de Long report). This plan indicates reworking in the porch/stair and service entrance areas which appear in Hitchcock's book (plate 201) and were built as sketched. The fireplace and seat in the living room were shifted and subsequently built as sketched, as was the ice room. The wall added to the right was shifted back in the final Hitchcock plan. The entry behind the livingroom has sketched-in doors at the rear, as seen in the Hitchcock drawing -- other doors do not yet appear, nor does the garden court. The house became more private in the final adjustments to the site. Wright's further changes are: the wall extending left was crossed out; a freehand wall is roughed in to right; heavy masonry walls are roughed in to left over former wall. (There are other miscellaneous markings and crosshatchings in the reworking.)

• design development drawing
• presentation drawing (proposal)

Graphite and coloured pencil

sheet: 65.0 x 53.0 cm

DR1980:0060:002

• finished drawing
• sketch
• pentimenti

• plan (drawing)

• general view

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r.: "MR. EMIL BACH / STUDY FOR DWELLING ..... FIRST STORY PLAN / FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT / ARCHITECT"; rooms labelled and some dimensions inscribed - by the architect, in graphite, c.l.: "cement floor"; u.c.: "down"; u.l.: "toilet in basement" [upside down]; u.r.: "mirror in bed room / ice box / coat room / flower house" [sideways]; t.: "60'.0 x 129 x 131" [upside down]; and verso, u.l.: "lot line" [can be seen from recto because of transparency of paper]

• architecture

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