Main entry:

Guerrero, Dixie Legler.

Title & Author:

Prairie style : house and gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School / text by Dixie Legler, photographs by Christian Korab.

Publication:

New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999.

Description:

207 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
"An Archetype Press book."
Includes bibliographical references (page 204) and index.
At home in the prairie. Introduction -- The Prairie School -- The prairie style : the new look. Sweeping lines -- Honest materials -- Open plans -- Custom furnishings -- Substantial fireplaces -- Natural colors -- Brilliant art glass -- Integral ornament -- Indigenous landscapes -- Prairie houses and gardens : Frank Lloyd Wright. Willits House (Highland Park, Illinois. 1902) -- Stockman House (Mason City, Iowa. 1908) -- Roberts House (River Forest, Illinois. 1908, 1955) -- Laura Gale House (Oak Park, Illinois. 1909) -- Prairie colleagues. Andrews House / Vernon Watson (Oak Park, Illinois. 1904) -- McCready House / Robert Spencer (Oak Park, Illinois. 1908) -- Bradley House / Louis Sullivan (Madison, Wisconsin. 1909) -- Charles Purcell House / William Gray Purcell (River Forest, Illinois. 1909) -- Powers House / Purcell, Feick, and Elmslie (Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1910) -- Elliott House / George Maher (Madison, Wisconsin. 1910).
Mess House / Walter Burley Griffin (Winnetka, Illinois. 1912) -- Hoyt House / Purcell, Feick, and Elmslie (Red Wing, Minnesota. 1913) -- Purcell-Cutts House / Purcell and Elmslie (Minnepolis, Minnesota. 1913) -- Baker House / William Drummond (Willmette, Illinois. 1914) -- Bersbach House / John Van Bergen (Willmette, Illinois. 1914) -- Clarke House / Barry Byrne (Fairfield, Iowa. 1915) -- Prairie gardens and landscapes. William Martin Garden / Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin (Oak Park, Illinois. 1909) -- Taliesin Garden / Frank Lloyd Wright (Spring Green Wisconsin. 1911-59) -- Roberts Garden / attributed to Jens Jensen (River Forest, Illinois. mid-1920s) -- Becker Garden / Jens Jensen (Highland Park, Illinois. 1926) -- Prairie communities. Millikin Place / Frank Lloyd Wright and Marion Mahony (Decatur, Illinois. 1909-10) -- Rock Crest-Rock Glen / planned by Walter Burley Griffin (Mason City, Iowa. 1912) -- Ravine Bluffs / Frank Lloyd Wright (Glencoe, Illinois. 1915) -- Middleton Hills / planned by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (Madison, Wisconsin. 1995) -- Prairie School designers.

Summary:

Shows and describes a variety of Prairie-style houses, and indicates the interior and exterior design characteristics.

ISBN:

1556709315
9781556709319

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, (1867-1959)
Architecture, Domestic Middle West.
Prairie school (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic Middle West 20th century.
Landscape design Middle West.
Interior decoration Middle West.
Architecture domestique Midwest (États-Unis) 20e siècle.
Prairie houses (Architecture)
Aménagement paysager Midwest (États-Unis)
Décoration intérieure Midwest (États-Unis)
Prairie School.
Landscape design
Interior decoration
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Prairie school (architecture)
Domestic architecture Middle West.
Middle West

Added entries:

Korab, Christian.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204613
Call No.: NA44.W949.23 L4 1999
Status: Available