The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park

As part of his birthday weekend, Francisco and I visited the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park. It is a Usonian house--the sort that FLW designed for middle-income families, showing that his designs could be accessible to ordinary budgets. Of course, the irony is that this is just about the opposite of democratic architecture: almost everything had to be made to order specifically for the house. And it was tiny--it felt just bigger than a trailer.

Sadly, you aren't permitted to take pictures inside the house, so I took plenty around the outside.

The house is built in the shape of a parallelogram (and so are things like the bricks used to build the house and the bed in the master bedroom). Supposedly there are only two right angles in the whole place. It seems highly impractical to me, and maybe a little dizzying. But the play between parallelograms and triangles throughout the house is very beautiful. The furniture inside, also designed by FLW, plays with geometrical shapes.

The man who owned the house was an artist who made the house's stained glass, and built the furniture from FLW's designs.