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" Today everyone treasures the Frank Lloyd Wright icons. The surprise in Rizzoli&amp;#039;s handsome new volume is just how many potential masterpieces were never actually built. Along with his early proposal for the Guggenheim\u2014an upside-down version of the Fifth Avenue museum\u2014dozens of astonishing designs have been collected by author Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, including Prairie Style residences, innovative boutiques, resort hotels, and even a colorful hand-woven rug for Wright&amp;#039;s son, David. Some of the images are intriguingly obscure. The book includes drawings of the village of vaguely Mayan vacation cottages that the architect proposed for the shores of Lake Tahoe. Others, such as the detailed rendering of the Wright masterpiece Fallingwater, shed new light on projects we all know so well. In his introduction, Pfeiffer notes the crucial role these architectural drawings played in getting Wright&amp;#039;s work built. Although typically executed by assistants whose names have been lost to history, the drawings prove nothing short of artworks in themselves. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The sketches, plans and drawings, by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Rizzoli, $85; rizzoliusa.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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