The Manual Review / 2

ISSUE TWO - Hollyhock House, documented by Ryan James Caruthers

 

The original sketches for Hollyhock House suggested a kind of temple, something you’d find in the hills of Yucatan, Mexico. Its hefty shapes, its extended courtyards, its trapezoidal parapets implied the Acropolis of Ek’ Balam made anew. Its ambition was so monumental that Frank Lloyd Wright, usually refined in his draughtsmanship, found himself spilling his pencil marks beyond the edges of the page. It was a building so deeply felt that it could not be contained on paper. The woman who commissioned it, oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, had already named it Hollyhock after her favourite flower. Wright had his own term for it: “California Romanza.”

 

 

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