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Constance Langdon
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"Proud Virginian, the old dominion, born and bred; thank you for noticing..." | |
Portrayed by | Jessica Lange |
First Appearance | Pilot |
Last Appearance | Afterbirth |
Species | Human |
Relationships | Vivien Harmon (neighbor[1], mother of her grandchild)
Ben Harmon (neighbor) [1] |
Relatives | Tate Langdon (son) [3] Adelaide Langdon (daughter) [1] |
Background Edit
Constance was born and raised in Virginia, but moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. After objecting to the nudity that was flooding the film industry at the time, her dreams of becoming an actress fell to the wayside. In 1983, she murdered both her husband, Hugo, and Moira O'Hara (with whom Hugo has cheated with once before) after catching them about to have sex, believing they were having an affair, when in reality, Hugo was trying to rape Moira (who tried to refuse his advances).
Personality Edit
She purports to be gentle and goodnatured but is really cunning and rude. She cares very much for her children, even though she sometimes doesn't treat them as well as she should. She also runs a daycare for dogs out of her home. She has stolen Vivien's jewelry and silverware in an attempt to frame Moira. Despite this, it appears that she and Moira are involved in some sort of plot involving Vivien's pregnancy, as she brings over assorted innards of pig for Vivien, claiming the organs are "good" for the baby. She may also have some precognitive ability, for example: she entered the house in the middle of the night and keeps Ben from injury during the Pilot and the toxic cupcakes she delivered for Violet actually ended up making one of the intruders violently ill during the home invasion.
Appearances Edit
- "Pilot": Constance introduces herself to the Harmon's as their next door neighbor. She also raids Vivien's jewelry box and is caught by Moira, though Moira does nothing about it.
- "Home Invasion": Constance bakes two large cupcakes, ostensibly for Violet, adding ipecac syrup to the batter. She spends some time with a handsome young man named Travis. She later assists Tate and Moira in disposing of the dead R. Franklin murder reenactors.
- "Murder House": 1983 Constance catches her husband, Hugo, raping the housekeeper, Moira. Believing they are having an affair she shoots Moira through her eye then shoots Hugo three times in the chest. 2011 She is caught again by Moira stealing silverware from the Harmon's. She tells Moira that she will keep stealing until she has "a full set" to sell on eBay and Moira is "fired for stealing". While walking her dogs she spots Tate through the window of the murder house's attic and waves to him but he does not wave back.
- "Halloween: Part 1": Constance is at home with Travis and her daughter Addy. She gets mad at Addy for her flirtations with Travis. Constance argues with Addy over her Halloween costume and finally settles on buying her a "pretty girl" mask. Addy is later killed in a hit-and-run accident and Constance tried to drag her onto the lawn of the house so she would come back in spirit.
- "Halloween: Part 2": Constance reveals to Violet that Tate is her son.
- "Piggy Piggy": 1994 Constance is present when Tate is killed by a S.W.A.T team. 2011 She introduces Violet to a medium named Billie Dean Howard and tries to relate to Violet about her dealings with the dead.
- "Open House": 2011 Constance tries to prevent Joe Escandarian from buying the house. 1994 To keep her son Beau from being taken from her and put in an institution, Constance employs the besmitten Larry Harvey to kill him.
- "Spooky Little Girl": Constance has an argument with Travis he leaves. Constance later learns from Moira that Tate has fathered one of Vivien's twins. She confronts Tate about this and later proposes to Travis, apologizing for her earlier actions. She tells him the two can raise Tate's child together, to which he tells her he's unsure, as he is still trying to build his acting career. She shoots down his dreams, citing her own experiences. After they argue, Travis leaves again. Constance visits Vivien in the hospital, offering her help during the pregnancy. Constance asks Billie Dean what could result from a human/spirit conception and is told that it could result in the birth of the Anti-Christ who will bring about the end of times.
- "Smoldering Children": Constance is questioned about Travis's murder as well as the murders of Hugo, Moira, and Beau. Although he did not have a hand in Travis's murder (other than disposing of his remains), Larry takes the fall in order to pay for all his sins. He tells Constance he will be able to endure any punishment as long as she admits she loves him, to which she coldly refuses.
- "Birth": Constance assists in the birth of Vivien's twins and quickly snatches Tate's child (her grandchild), Michael.
- "Afterbirth": Constance cautions Ben against bringing Michael back into the house. When Ben dies, she takes it upon herself to raise Michael as her own. Three years later, she has left Los Angeles and is raising Michael in an unknown location. She returns home to find he has murdered his nanny. Constance smirks at the sight commenting " Now whatever am I going to do with you? "
Quotes Edit
- To Tate Langdon: "Just a smile or a kind word could open the gates to Heaven."
- To Moira O'Hara: "I am trying to find some dignity in this situation."
- To Vivien Harmon: "I'm a good christian, but Jesus H. Christ..."
- To Moira O'Hara: "Don't make me kill you again."
- To Moira O'Hara: "Everytime I find my heart break in just a sliver for you, I suddenly remember; You brought this all on yourself."
- To Vivien Harmon: "He was a model of physical perfection. He was my gift. But I lost him to other things."
- To Violet Harmon: "They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality, but when a child dies, it's immortality that a parent loses."
- To Violet Harmon: "He's a sensitive boy, you know that; A young man with too deep feelings, the soul of a poet, but none of the grit or steel that acts as a bulwark against... these horrors of this world."
- To Violet Harmon: "I questioned my sanity when I first found out, but this house will make you a believer."
- To Vivien Harmon: "We need that baby. We need another...sweet child."
- Constance Langdon: "At the end of the day... he meant less to me than dog shit."
- To Chad Warwick: "Why can't you people just be content with having pets? Why must you subject an innocent child to your perversions?"
- To Billie Dean Howard: "Well that's all nice and dandy, but what about the gays I mean, how do we get rid of them?"
- To Moira O'Hara: "There's not gonna be any swimming pool you stupid slut!"
- To Larry Harvey: "Even dead, even a boy, he's twice the man you are."
- To Detective Granger: "I have grieved enough for two lifetimes. Most people would be broken by the deaths of their children, but my nature would not permit such weakness."
- To Vivien Harmon: "I thought those people were supposed to be stylish."
Notes Edit
- Constance's kitchen was used as a set for Ryan Murphy's other show, Glee. It was the kitchen of Santana's grandmother.
- Although Constance stated that she had four children, a fourth child was never revealed. However in an recent interview with Tim Minear, it was revealed that there was supposed to be a mention of it in Constance's beauty salon speech in the final episode, but it was cut. See theories about the fourth child.
- Murphy stated that Constance was to have an albino child in his commentary on the pilot episode.
- See the separate Theories page however: A subpage for Theories is available here.
- She is the first character to be portrayed by Jessica Lange. The second was Sister Jude and the third is Fiona.
Gallery Edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Episode: Pilot
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Episode: Murder House
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode: Home Invasion
- ↑ Episode: Piggy Piggy
- ↑ Episode: Open House
- ↑ Episode: Afterbirth
- ↑ Martin, Denise,"American Horror Story Exclusive", TV Guide, 4 Dec 2011. Her name had however already been confirmed in episode "Home Invasion" when Ben speaks to Constance on the phone and says "Mrs Langdon, I cannot treat your son anymore"
- ↑ confirmed by Kate Mara in "Rubber Man Making Of video"


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The Lure of Sabbath Deception
Are Christians who meet together to worship God on Sunday deceived? Historically, the Adventist church has answered this question in the affirmative. "Sunday-worshipers", as they are often labeled by Adventists, are obviously misled because they ignore God's clear command to worship on Saturday, citing the Fourth Commandment as evidence (Exodus 20:8-11). And if those who worship on Sunday are deceived, someone must be guilty of promoting this deception. As such, it is perhaps not surprising to see an Adventist conclude that Christians who believe the Fourth Commandment supports Sunday "Sabbath" observance are guilty of promoting great deception. This is sadly the conclusion of a recent Adventist Review article by journalist Mark Kellner entitled "The Lure of Sabbath Deception".
The stimulus for Kellner's article was a sermon series he heard on the radio by Alistair Begg, pastor of Parkside Church near Cleveland, Ohio. In this series, Begg argued for a continuing role of the Old Testament Sabbath for Christians. Because Christians worship together on Sunday, Begg belives the Sabbath principle should continue to apply to this day. To an Adventist, Begg's teaching is part of the great deception about the Sabbath that has been promoted in Christianity since the fourth century rule of the Roman emperor Constantine. Adventist prophetess Ellen White claimed that Christians would one day be tested on their loyalty to God on the basis of their day of worship—those who worship on Saturday will be eligible for heaven while those who worship on Sunday will not.
Kellner revives this Adventist teaching in his criticism of Begg. "So how did [Begg] move from dogmatic insistence on honoring the fourth commandment to an about-face on the God-specified day?" Begg's answer, of course, is that the day of worship was changed from Saturday to Sunday in the first century as a result of Jesus' Sunday resurrection. Striking at the heart of Adventism's view of early Christian history, Begg stated that Constantine did not change the day of worship 300 years after Christ's death, but merely endorsed a widespread and long-standing Christian practice. Kellner, obviously not moved by this argument but providing no evidence of his own, writes, "Such assertions, however, lack much in the way of actual historical proof...". Nevermind that over one hundred years earlier, former Adventist preacher D.M. Canright provided ample historical evidence to support Begg's conclusions.
Not surprisingly, Begg reported receiving harsh criticism of his position from Adventists, some even accusing him of not being a Christian. Kellner casts doubt over the truthfulness of Begg's account, saying, "...there's little way of proving that such a charge was made". Perhaps Kellner chose his words poorly, but the way the article reads, Begg's honesty is at least implicitly questioned. Kellner proceeds to counter the Adventist criticism of Begg by citing the Adventist fundamental belief statement that "the universal church is composed of all who truly believe in Christ."
While Kellner is willing to give Begg the title of "Christian" with the one hand, he endeavors to take it away with the other. "To be sure, God will hold responsible those who don't keep the Bible Sabbath when it is plainly revealed that Sundaykeeping is a counterfeit. But to multiple millions—and even perhaps to Alistair Begg himself—there is justification for ignoring the Bible's clear command, at least for now." It is left to the reader to decide whether Begg is really a Christian, but we can be sure that if he has ignored the Bible's "clear command", he will be "held responsible" for his actions. For those who know the Adventist version of end-time events, the underlying message is fairly obvious. If Begg rejects the teaching of God's Word about the Sabbath when it becomes "plainly revealed", he will receive the mark of the beast. The only hope is that God will not make Sunday "plainly revealed" as a "counterfeit" during his lifetime so that Begg won't be held accountable for accepting Satan's false Sabbath and receive his mark.
Turning his attention toward other Christian teachers, Kellner presses home his point. "...there is an added level of concern now—a lure, if you will, of deception about the Sabbath." Listing a group of Christian authors who have written about the Sabbath as it applies to Sunday, Kellner claims that a great deception is unfolding before our eyes. Satan is using these Christian authors to lure more people into false Sabbath worship so that apparently, more people will be lost by receiving his mark. In a sarcastic tone, Kellner singles out the noted Christian author Marva Dawn. "The lures posed by radio expounders such as Begg, Tony Evans of the Urban Alternative, and some Christian authors—including Marva Dawn (author of several books on 'keeping Sabbath' without keeping the Sabbath)—appear to be that one can freely choose how to observe a commandment of God without adhering to what God dictates." Using the same logic, an orthodox Jew could just as easily include Kellner among a list of authors who write about the Sabbath without actually keeping it the way God prescribed. One wonders what Kellner does with the very explicit list of commands God gave to the Israelites about how the Sabbath was to be observed, much less the commands to observe feasts and holy days.
Concluding the article, Kellner leaves his audience with the take-home message. What are we to do with this growing evangelical Christian interest in Sabbath—interest that is clothed in the world's greatest deception? "The opportunity for Adventists, in their words and in their living witness, is to present Sabbath, and Sabbathkeeping, as not only delightful, but attractive. It may surprise many to see who shows up when we treat the Sabbath as a true delight, and share that delight with the world." The centerpiece of Adventist evangelism is here on vivid display—it is all about the Sabbath. Non-Christians and Christians alike need this precious message, because without it, they may stand condemned. If the Sabbath is made attractive enough, people will begin to realize that they should be keeping it and thereby avoid God's condemnation.
It's tragic, but what's missing from all of this is Jesus. If only Adventists had the same zeal for converting people to Christ that they have for converting them to a day of worship. Sadly, the most precious message of Christianity has been replaced in Adventism by the worship of a day. The day was never meant to be the object of worship or the dividing line between believers, but a sign pointing the way to Jesus, who deserves all worship. "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ." (Colossians 2:16-17, see also Romans 14:5-6) The apostle Paul's teaching is straightforward. All who would divide the body of Christ over a day of worship have missed his point. While Christians hold fast to the substance of Christ, Adventists continue to direct people to his shadow and in so doing, risk missing the Savior who can redeem them from their sin, even their sin of imperfect Sabbath-keeping.


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While the best way to develop good research skills is through practice and working closely with a librarian, professor or other knowledgable source, there are a few basic tips to keep in mind when conducting research.
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The Triumph of Frank Lloyd Wright
The Guggenheim Museum, turning 50 this year, showcases the trailblazer's mission to elevate American society through architecture
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Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic building was also one of his last. The reinforced-concrete spiral known as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened in New York City 50 years ago, on October 21, 1959; six months before, Wright died at the age of 92. He had devoted 16 years to the project, facing down opposition from a budget-conscious client, building-code sticklers and, most significantly, artists who doubted that paintings could be displayed properly on a slanting spiral ramp. "No, it is not to subjugate the paintings to the building that I conceived this plan," Wright wrote to Harry Guggenheim, a Thoroughbred horse breeder and founder of Newsday who, as the benefactor's nephew, took over the project after Solomon's death. "On the contrary, it was to make the building and the painting a beautiful symphony such as never existed in the world of Art before."
The grandiloquent tone and unwavering self-assurance are as much Wright trademarks as the building's unbroken and open space. Time has indeed shown the Guggenheim's tilted walls and continuous ramp to be an awkward place to hang paintings, yet the years have also confirmed that in designing a building that bestowed brand-name recognition on a museum, Wright was prophetic. Four decades later, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao—the curvaceous, titanium-clad affiliated museum in northern Spain—would launch a wave of cutting-edge architectural schemes for art institutions across the globe. But Wright was there first. A retrospective exhibition at the original Guggenheim (until August 23) reveals how often Wright pioneered trends that other architects would later embrace. Passive solar heating, open-plan offices, multi-storied hotel atriums—all are now common, but at the time Wright designed them they were revolutionary.
When Solomon Guggenheim, the heir to a mining fortune, and his art adviser, Hilla Rebay, decided to construct a museum for abstract painting (which they called "non-objective art"), Wright was a natural choice as architect. In Rebay's words, the two were seeking "a temple of spirit, a monument" and Wright, through his long career, was a builder of temples and monuments. These included actual places of worship, such as Unity Temple (1905-8) for a Unitarian congregation in Oak Park, Illinois, one of the early masterpieces that proclaimed Wright's genius, and Beth Sholom Synagogue (1953-59) in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, which, like the Guggenheim, he supervised at the end of his life. But in everything he undertook, the goal of enhancing and elevating the human experience was always on Wright's mind. In his religious buildings, he used many of the same devices—bold geometric forms, uninterrupted public spaces and oblique-angled seating—as in his secular ones. The large communal room with overhead lighting that is the centerpiece of Unity Temple was an idea he had introduced in the Larkin Company Administration Building (1902-6), a mail-order house in Buffalo, New York. And before it reappeared in Beth Sholom, what he called "reflex-angle seating"—in which the audience fanned out at 30-degree angles around a projecting stage—was an organizing principle in his theater plans, starting in the early 1930s. To Wright's way of thinking, any building, if properly designed, could be a temple.
In his unshakable optimism, messianic zeal and pragmatic resilience, Wright was quintessentially American. A central theme that pervades his architecture is a recurrent question in American culture: How do you balance the need for individual privacy with the attraction of community activity? Everyone craves periods of solitude, but in Wright's view, a human being develops fully only as a social creature. In that context, angled seating allowed audience members to concentrate on the stage and simultaneously function as part of the larger group. Similarly, a Wright house contained, along with private bedrooms and baths, an emphasis on unbroken communal spaces—a living room that flowed into a kitchen, for example—unknown in domestic residences when he began his practice in the Victorian era. As early as 1903, given the opportunity to lay out a neighborhood (in Oak Park, which was never built), Wright proposed a "quadruple block plan" that placed an identical brick house on each corner of a block; he shielded the inhabitants from the public street with a low wall and oriented them inward toward connected gardens that encouraged exchanges with their neighbors. Good architecture, Wright wrote in a 1908 essay, should promote the democratic ideal of "the highest possible expression of the individual as a unit not inconsistent with a harmonious whole."
That vision animates the Guggenheim Museum. In the course of descending the building's spiral ramp, a visitor can focus on works of art without losing awareness of other museumgoers above and below. To that bifocal consciousness, the Guggenheim adds a novel element: a sense of passing time. "The strange thing about the ramp—I always feel I am in a space-time continuum, because I see where I've been and where I'm going," says Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives in Scottsdale, Arizona. As Wright approached the end of his life, that perception of continuity—recalling where he had been while advancing into the future—must have appealed to him. And, looking back, he would have seen telling examples in his personal history of the tension between the individual and the community, between private desires and social expectations.
Wright's father, William, was a restless, chronically dissatisfied Protestant minister and organist who moved the family, which included Wright's two younger sisters, from town to town until he obtained a divorce in 1885 and took off for good. Wright, who was 17 at the time, never saw his father again. His mother's family, the combative Lloyd Joneses, were Welsh immigrants who became prominent citizens of an agricultural valley near the village of Hillside, Wisconsin. Wright himself might have written the family motto: "Truth Against the World." Encouraged by his maternal relatives, Wright showed an early aptitude for architecture; he made his initial forays into building design by working on a chapel, a school and two houses in Hillside, before apprenticing in Chicago with the celebrated architect Louis H. Sullivan. Sullivan's specialty was office buildings, including classic skyscrapers, such as the Carson Pirie Scott & Company building, which were transforming the Chicago skyline.
But Wright devoted himself primarily to private residences, developing what he called "Prairie Style" houses, mostly in Oak Park, the Chicago suburb in which he established his own home. Low-slung, earth-hugging buildings with strong horizontal lines and open circulation through the public rooms, they were stripped clean of unnecessary decoration and used machine-made components. The Prairie Style revolutionized home design by responding to the domestic needs and tastes of modern families. Wright had firsthand knowledge of their requirements: in 1889, at 21, he had married Catherine Lee Tobin, 18, the daughter of a Chicago businessman, and, in short order, fathered six children.
Like his own father, however, Wright exhibited a deep ambivalence toward family life. "I hated the sound of the word papa," he wrote in his 1932 autobiography. Dissatisfaction with domesticity predisposed him toward a similarly discontented Oak Park neighbor: Mamah Cheney, a client's wife, whose career as head librarian in Port Huron, Michigan, had been thwarted by marriage and who found the duties of wife and mother a poor substitute. The Wrights and Cheneys socialized as a foursome, until, as Wright later described it, "the thing happened that has happened to men and women since time began—the inevitable." In June 1909, Mamah Cheney told her husband that she was leaving him; she joined Wright in Germany, where he was preparing a book on his work. The scandal titillated newspapers—the Chicago Tribune quoted Catherine as saying she had been the victim of a "vampire" seductress. Wright was painfully conflicted about walking out on his wife and children. He attempted a reconciliation with Catherine in 1910, but then resolved to live with Cheney, whose own work—a translation of the writings of Swedish feminist Ellen Key—provided intellectual support for this convention-defying step. Leaving the Oak Park gossipmongers behind, the couple retreated to the Wisconsin valley of the Lloyd Joneses to start anew.
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Regarding the photograph on page 57 of the June 2009 article about Frank Lloyd Wright; although similar, the two cars are not the Austin Healey 'Bugeye' Sprite. The 'Bugeye' Sprite was produced in England between 1958-1961.
The photo shows Frank sitting in an American made car, produced in Indiana; the Crosley HotShot. Although this model was made from 1949-1952; details suggest that these cars were built in 1949-1950. For additional imformation, please go to the following link: http://crosleyautoclub.com
Posted by Steve Chmelar on January 1,2010 | 09:17 PM
Arthur Lubow, in "The Triumph of Frank Lloyd Wright" (June 2009), mentions, as part of Wright's ambition to "elevate American society," his Broadacre City scheme. While Broadacre City remained a dream, Wright was commissioned to design a microcosm of a city, the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla. Thanks to the curators of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Wright's campus is on display in the Guggenheim's 50th anniversary exhibition.
Built on a shoestring with the help of student labor from 1939 until his death in 1959, Wright's campus comprises the largest single-site collection of his work in the world. Of the 18 structures designed, 12 were built, including his only planetarium and theatre-in-the-round; a 1.5-mile network of cantilevered esplanades; and an iconic symbol of the fountain of knowledge, a 60-foot-high water dome, which was only fully realized in 2007 when engineering technology and available funding caught up with Wright's vision. Today, the campus is undergoing an ambitious restoration under the leadership of president Dr. Anne Kerr and funded by the Getty Foundation, the State of Florida, private donors, and the Save America's Treasures program.
If the Guggenheim traces its lineage to the 1924 sketch of an unbuilt parking garage, as Lubow suggests, it also owes much to Wright's grand design for the Florida Southern College library, a multi-tiered, circular reading room enveloped by clerestory windows and an indoor balcony. Of note, the library was completed in 1945, the same year Wright was working on the Guggenheim drawings. Wright's campus, rising out of the ground in the midst of an orange grove and constructed of native materials — sand, coquina shell, and Florida tidewater cypress — is a masterpiece of organic architecture. In a 1950 speech, he called it "a little green shoot in the realm of the spirit."
Lee Mayhall, Vice President, College Relations
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Posted by Lee Mayhall on June 29,2009 | 03:09 PM
As a graduate of Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fl. I was somewhat disappointed that you did not show nor mention any of Wrights buildings there, such as the Annie Phieffer Chapel. It too was an important era in his life as was his friendship with Ludd M Spivey, the president at the time of the construction. This was done in the early '40's and is such an integral part of Southern's history.
Posted by betty hancock on June 28,2009 | 04:00 PM
During the time Mr. Wright was working on the Guggenheim he was also working on a very little known project that was to become the "Taliesin Ensemble" or the "Taliesin Line". It was to include fabrics and wallpapers by F. Schumacher and Co.,Rugs by Karastan,furniture by Heritage-Henredon,paints by Martin-Senour Co. and accessories (VASES)by Minic. Between the years of 1953-1955 I was the "runner" between my father, Valentine Minnich,president of Minic,and Mr. Wright. I would bring models and drawings based on ideas that Mr. Wright and my father had and how difficult the pieces would be to bring into production. Mr. Wright liked the idea that my father had faith in a 13 year old to speak on behalf of the Minic firm and for two years I visited the second floor of the Plaza Hotel dropping off the latest sketch or model for Mr. Wright's approval.I still have photos of many of the pieces along with my collection. I would be happy to send by e-mail photos of the vases if anyone is interested in seeing them. Yours, William V. Minnich
Posted by William V. Minnich on June 18,2009 | 10:19 PM
I read with excitement Arthur Lubow's article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wrights' Guggenheim Museum in New York City. As an art historian turned woodworker, I was delighted to be involved in the restoration of the famed architects' last prairie house built in Chicago. This was the Emil Bach House, built in 1917. Bought at auction in 2005 the interior, which had been severely altered over the years, was painstakingly restored with the exception of the heating system. For the rooms unfurnished by Wright, the new owner commissioned original works of art which complimented Wright's unique details. My effort was a desk made of Illinois black walnut and beech (the primary woods of the house) inspired by the Japanese Tansu style. To 'marry' the desk to the house I simply lifted the iconography from the house and applied it to the desk. For example, Wright's use of bands of casement windows 'wrapping around the corners' of the house is reflected by the two checked drawer fronts in that the checks 'wrap around the corner' into the drawer sides. Another example of marrying the desk to the house is the caning on the sliding doors which conceal files. The caning connects the desk to the chair, which is a duplicate of a chair from the original dinette set designed by Wright for the Bach house.
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Posted by Marcus Collier on June 18,2009 | 04:20 PM
As is too often the case with artists & those who talk about their work, the central idea is ignored. Your essay on the Guggenheim Museum is a case in point. Wright figured out the best way to design a museum where you walk around looking at objects on the wall & never being sure which way to turn when you enter another room. Hence, you make it easier to walk by having a slight incline down, & in a spiral so you don't have to decide which way to turn. All that talk about ziggurats & symbols & such by Wright & others, may be true, but obscure the central idea. BTW, I've never started visit to the Guggenheim by walking up, but by taking the elevator & walking down. Then I might walk back up.
Posted by John Mood on June 10,2009 | 07:03 PM
I love the Smithsonian Magazine and truly enjoyed the article about FLWright. Question: In San Luis Obispo, CA, there is a small office building that FLW designed. Do you have any info on that?
The article by Patton's grandson was one of the most touching articles! Thanks for that.
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Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest architect of the 20th Century. I believe you can include the 19th, 18th & 17th centuries.
Posted by Theo Dimson on June 4,2009 | 05:55 PM
Those are two Austin Healey Sprite autos, nicknamed "bug eyed sprites" for obvious reasons. They were designed that way to comply with federal regulations for headlight height.
The cars were produced in the 1960's and perhaps into the 1970's. For more info, check Wikipedia.
Posted by Robert Krogh on June 4,2009 | 02:32 PM
I was facinated by the two little cars pictured with Lloyd and his wife. Do you have any information on them?
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I grew up a girl.
So since I became a pilot and joined the aviation world I often feel several paces behind my mates when the inevitable conversations about airplanes begin. I mean these guys can remember every detail of every airplane EVER manufactured. And I am like, "Well, the 152…" Because I trained in the Cessna 152 it's really the only airplane I can speak about. That doesn't leave many conversations I can participate in.
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A telling performance with so much on the line
Well, that's going to make it pretty hard to get to three wins this week, no?
(Yes, my math skills are unparalleled).
And it sure takes some of the shine off the game in Milwaukee in Saturday, no?
But soldier on we must …
As bad as ever
Yes, I thought Andrea Bargnani was playing scared, as I mentioned the other day, and I thought – and at some level still think – there is a roll for him.
But after the dog of a game last night, he's got to be running out of chances with everyone concerned. And that's teammates and coaches, some of whom are starting to cast a furtive eye in his direction.
I know Bargnani is never going to be – nor was he ever – a high-intensity guy but the loafing you saw last night is simply unprofessional and unacceptable and if he starts to lose his teammates and coaches as supporters, it's over.
No one – yet – wants him benched but he needs to at least show more effort than he did last night. He was okay in the effort department the other night against Washington – he looked engaged and just missed good shots – but last night it looked like he was off in some other area code.
The kid is turning into his own worst enemy, those on the staff and the roster who supported him are not all that enthralled any more and if their support goes, he's done.
He's close but it's now up to him to make amends.
Can he?
I'm dubious.
So, what now?
Regardless of what you or I think, these guys are not going to give up the ghost of a playoff race yet.
Not sure when the inevitable hits home and the race is over -- six back in 10th with just 24 to go seems an impossible task – but just listening to them in the locker room after the Cleveland game hammers home their continued confidence.
They were disappointed, frustrated and ticked off, of course, but no one was throwing in the towel; not Dwane, not the three of four players I talked to.
And you may say it's silly to think that way but what you think, or I think, doesn't really matter. Until it's over, it's not over.
So if you're looking for 30 minutes a night for Terrence Ross or 40 minutes a night for Jonas Valanciunas or 15 minutes a night for Quincy Acy, you're not going to get it yet.
Please don't whine, it's not your decision and until you get Dwane's job, there's nothing you can do about it.
Defence first
The appearances of Sebastian Telfair (average at best, no real impact) in the second quarter and Aaron Gray (rusty, questionable hands, no real impact) were driven entirely by the need for some defensive effort, intensity and stops.
Didn't happen, really; the Cavs still rolled up too many easy baskets but it goes to the heart of Dwane's problem: He's got too many who you never know what you'll get from to make it easy to figure out what to do each night.
More? Of course there's more.
Not bad that Stephen Curry got those 54 points in New York last night considering he should have probably been suspended for escalating the scuffle the other night in Indy.
And, yes, I thought the NBA came down lightly on the participants in that skirmish but I've thought David Stern and his disciplinary henchmen have been soft all year.
What did the famous guy say?
Yeah, times they are a'changing.
Really, any night that ends with three Yeungling's and a first-time taste of huge mushrooms filled with cream cheese, battered in a Guinness batter and deep fried can't be considered a bad night, can it?
And you can put Flannery's on the list of top post-game watering holes, it's good all the requisites. It's a five-minute walk from the arena, it's got a great selection of taps, the kitchen's open late, the bar staff will turn bad college basketball off for an NBA game and it's directly on the way home.
Mail? Since I'm not doing anything at the game Friday night, there'll be plenty of time. So do your stuff folks, please. You know how.
You know, I've got a lot of friends and a couple of relatives in Ottawa and I quite like the city and would love to head back there for a week of training camp sometime.
But, really, there are some entirely wrong-thinking people up there and I'm not talking specifically about Honourable Members.
I'm talking about the people who somehow thought it would be okay to name the coming NBL Canada team up there the Tomahawks.
These people could not have been serious, could they? How could they get it so wrong?
What, was Redskins taken?
It's idiotic, actually, and I don't care how the owners of the team tried to spin it, it was a ridiculous decision from the get-go, they had to know in these Idle No More times in which we live that there would be some blowback on the decision. Why invite it? Why not think things through before such a gaffe?
Thankfully, it looks like they'll fix it soon.
Hey, here's an idea.
Why not call them the Redblacks?
So Gumby and I are finishing up the typing last night, he checks his e-mail and finds out the good folks at Air Canada have already cancelled his flight home today and rebooked him for Friday.
Guess who appreciates the Smelly Ford Taurus now?
Speaking of the drive, we're trying to be on the road by 8 a.m., should get us across the border in plenty of time to settle somewhere by noon to answer questions for an hour or so.
Join in the fun, I presume Andrea's name will come up.
Not quite but I'm glad they found the sausage costume in Milwaukee and whoever would be so low as to steal a Chicken-like suit should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Now, if people were to steal a couple of NBA outfits, I'd be quite fine with it.
They could get the sickly Coyote in San Antonio and the world wouldn't be worse off, I'm not sure the Hawk down in Atlanta would be missed and whatever that goofy thing is in Brooklyn can disappear any time.


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