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Jun 08, 2016 this is frank lloyd wright is many things. He remains at taliesin to this day, as director of the frank lloyd wright archives, a vicepresident of the frank lloyd wright foundation. Huxtable who, regrettably, just died at the age of 92, was a wonderful architecture critic and she tells the story well. In addition to the 26 original sheets of wallpaper designed by wright, there are 6 pages of photographic plates illustrating rooms with the products in use, demonstrating wrights ideal of the close relationship between architecture and decorative design.
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