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The Yodoko Guest House was designed as a second house for Tazaemon Yamamura, a prominent sake brewer.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 4, 2017
When newspaper headlines about Wright’s affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney drove him from Chicago in 1911, he returned to the comfort of a place he had spent much of his childhood.
Midway Gardens was designed to be a European–style concert garden with space for year-round dining, drinking, and performances.
While working on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Wright was introduced to the Hanis by his Japanese assistant, Arata Endo.
Wright, an avid collector of Japanese prints, had long been intrigued by Japanese culture and jumped at the opportunity to build something in the Orient.
Perched on a 36-acre hilltop in East Hollywood, Wright’s first and most widely known West Coast design defies stylistic categorization.
When the City National Bank considered expanding into Mason City, James Blythe and J.E.E.
Originally constructed on the shores of Minnesota’s scenic Lake Minnetonka, the extraordinarily large and complex Francis Little House II was among Wright’s richest expressions of the Prairie aesthetic and the last of his Midwestern Prairie houses.