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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Fawcett Home by Frank Lloyd Wright

Original owners Randall "Buck" and Harriet Fawcett met Frank Lloyd Wright while taking an architecture course at Stanford University. In 1954, they commissioned Wright to design a home for them on 80 acres in Los Banos, California, and the home was completed in 1961.

It is a U-shaped structure with the living room at the base, looking onto a garden through a wall of windows and French doors. Each wing opens at a 120 degree angle, with a row of bedrooms on the north side and a kitchen and playroom on the south. It has a low-pitched roof, banded with a copper fascia and is built of cinderblock and mahogany. The concrete floor is scribed with equilateral triangles, and this motif is repeated in cut-out wood screens, light fixtures and the patterned fascia. The focal point of the family room is a 6-foot-high and 12-foot-wide fireplace.

The home has 6 bedrooms, 4.5 baths and is approximately 3700 square feet.

From sfgate.com
All images from homedsgn.com