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Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house

Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house

Book 2003

"I conceived a love of you quite beyond the ordinary relationship of client and Architect. That love gave you Fallingwater. You will never have anything more in your life like it," says Frank Lloyd Wright to Edgar Kaufmann, the patron who comissioned one of the most famous private homes from twentieth-century American architecture. Toker describes the birth of Fallingwater on Kaufmann's land called Bear Run in the Pennsylvania countryside, includ...