FALLINGWATER

Fallingwaters is a home built by

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator. He promoted organic architecture, which was best exemplified in his most famous work: Fallingwater.

This home is located here in the Beautiful Pennsylvania in Ohio Pyle. It is about 30 minutes from where we live and they just opened for their 2009 spring season. I went for an "in-depth tour and lecture" and it was amazing. The story of the Wrights and Hoffman’s is quit interesting.
Here is a link to the website, the "Timeline" and "Story" is something well worth looking at.

www.fallingwater.org/

Here are a few pictures that I took. One of the coolest things is that Mr. Wright used tons of windows; in almost every room there is one wall that is nothing but windows that overlook nature and all its beauty. You can also open all those windows and you can hear the water falling in every room of the house,

it was built around nature and it is apart of every space.

There were many guest that came to visit and stay with the Hoffman's and Mr. Wright...One of them was Albert Einstein!

My Grandpa Willis would love this place!

This is part of one of the streams that flows under the bridge

and into the wading/plunge pool and then off the other side of the house

As you pull up to the house you cross the bridge that I'm standing on

and enter the house from behind. Mr. Wright intended for this

house to be a retreat and there for does not offer

a direct entrance to the house, because it was more by invitation only.

Not everyone was welcome at anytime.

The stairs that you see come down from the Great room

which was the main living space and you walk down the stairs

and you can step into the wading/plunge pool

Just on the other side of those stairs is where you see the

Fallingwater!

Here is a view from one of the bedrooms looking

at the balcony that leads off of the Great room.

Here is another seating area in the Great room

The Great Room

The large red pot was a heating pot, it was heated over the fireplace

and then it spun over to the round inset in the stone wall, kind of

hard to see. in the picture above you can get a better look.

They also heated their liquor here and served it warm/hot

you can see the verity of liquor on the table.

The Great Room

The Great Room

In every bedroom there is a writing desk and books to read

this beautiful Tiffany's lamp was a very nice piece for the room.

The drawing on the wall is from Japan. Mr. Wright study there for 5 years

the drawing is from a famous artist in Japan and there are only 10 drawing of this series

6 of them were given to the Hoffman's as gifts from Frank Lloyd Wright and they are

all displayed in the house.

This picture is Mr. & Mrs. Hoffman with Frank Lloyd Wright

Mrs. Hoffman

Every spare wall was turned into a place for books

This is a view from the guest house leading down to the main house

This video was taken at a vertical angle and it is not wanting to let me flip it!