WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd.

£4,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Taliesin Fellowship, December 1933; The second publication of this brochure for the Taliesin Fellowship, first issued a year previously. Inscribed by Wright on the front panel of the wrappers to a young architecture student. A typical - quirky - piece of FLW design and fragile. Although institutionally quite well represented with around 25 on WorldCat, it is inevitably scarce commercially with just two copies appearing at auction, neither signed.Taliesin, sometimes known as Taliesin East or Taliesin Spring Green after the establishment of Taliesin West in 1937, was the home and estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, developed on land that originally belonged to Wright's maternal family. In 1932, the Wrights established the private Taliesin Fellowship, where 50 to 60 apprentices could come to study under the architect. Students helped him develop the estate at a time when Wright received few commissions for his work. Once he began Taliesin West, a winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona, Wright and the fellowship "migrated" between the two homes each year. Wright did not consider the fellowship a formal school, instead viewing it as a benevolent educational institution.Sold together with an original double-weight photograph of Wright (153 x 203 mm), a little silvered and cracked in the emulsion. The original recipient John Gordon "Jack" Rideout (1898-1950) became a noted industrial designer working out of Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio. Rideout always wanted to be an arch

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