Fallingwater

Fallingwater is, first of all, in Pennsylvania, which makes it immediately a wonderful thing. It was also my first experience of genius. Frank Lloyd Wright's relation to nature is fascinating--for instance, the floor of the living room is made of stone and glazed to look like the wet stone of the creek/crick. There is a staircase from the living room down to the middle of the water; the door can be opened to let in a cooling breeze from the water in the summer.

I was also struck by the windows, which could open at the corner. And the art on the walls (Picassos, Audobon prints). And the guest house can't be seen from the main house, so there were no window coverings.