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Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss

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Through letters, memoirs, recent documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs – many of which have never before been published – writer Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, which will be the architect’s principal place of dwelling for the remainder of his life. Photos taken by Wright’s associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright’s own recollections of the primary summer there and the craftsmen who worked at the website online.
 
The book also brings to life Wright’s “kindred spirit,” “she for whom Taliesin had first taken form,” Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each and every abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright’s beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this primary phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end.

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