Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House

Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House by Hildebrand, Grant. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780295986401.

Frank Lloyd Wrights Palmer house, built in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early 1950s, is one of Wrights last residential masterpieces. Working from extensive materials gathered by Ann and Leonard Eaton, and from his own fifty-two-year familiarity with the building, Grant Hildebrand crafts the story of Billy and Mary Palmers extraordinary home. He presents in detail the events surrounding the Palmers selection of Wright as architect; Wrights personal creation of the design; the challenges, and the craftsmanship, of its construction; the evolution of its garden and teahouse; the role of the house as a setting for the Palmers lives; and an analysis of its remarkable formal and spatial qualities. With a rich compendium of personal information and an extensive array of photographs, plans, and diagrams created especially for this book, Frank Lloyd Wrights Palmer House offers a comprehensive exploration of a living work of art and an intimate portrait of the people who, having brought it into being, treasured its presence in their lives for half a century. Citing the particular synergies of architect and client, house and site, Hildebrand situates the heretofore little-known Palmer house within the context of Wrights overall oeuvre and presents a convincing argument for the inclusion of the Palmer house in the canon of the architects finest residential designs.