Exhibition Catalog - Lawrence Technological University

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wing, perhaps indicating the Affl ecks’ desire to use the
loggia as more than just a staging area.
33
Affl eck to Wright, 17 June 1940, A065A09, FLWFA.
34
Affl eck to Wright, 4 August 1940, A065B07, FLWFA.
35
Affl eck to Wright, 15 September 1940, A066B05,
FLWFA.
36
Harold Turner to Frank Lloyd Wright, 21 January 1941,
T024A07, FLWFA.
37
Affl eck to Turner, 25 February 1941, A068C08, FLWFA.
38
Affl eck to Wright, 15 September 1940, A066B05,
FLWFA.
39
Affl eck, “Client’s Report,” FLWFA.
40
Turner to Wright, 13 July 1941, T024C06, FLWFA.
41
Affl eck, “Client’s Report,” FLWFA.
42
Frank Lloyd Wright, “In the Cause of Architecture,”
Architectural Record 23 (March 1908): 157.
43
Wright, Autobiography, 493.
44
Affl eck, “Client’s Report, FLWFA.
Gregor recounts how “Betty bought the worst looking chair
I have ever seen. I kicked a hole in it, so now it goes into the
maid’s room (we have no maid).” Affl eck to Wright, 1 April
1942, A073A09, and 27 November 1943, A077E03, FLWFA.
52
Affl eck to Wright, 9 August 1942, A073C06, and 18 November
1942, A074A09, FLWFA.
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A tantalizing later reference to such a piece occurs in a
1947 letter where Affl eck writes to Wright, “I hear that you
have an abstraction for the upper doors in our loggia.” Affl
eck to Wright, 17 November 1947, A097C07, FLWFA.
54
Affl eck to Wright, 17 June 1940, A065A09, FLWFA. On
home prices, see Clifford Edward Clark, The American Family
Home, 1800-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1986), 217.
55
The exhibition is chronicled in Peter Reed and William Kaizen,
eds., The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and
the Museum of Modern Art, 1940 (New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 2004).
56
Ibid., 215.
57
General Motors. Television Advertisement (1948) (http://
revver.com/video/372649/commercial-classics-futuramicoldsmobile-commercial/)
(accessed 9 February 2011).
58
General Motors, print advertisement (1948).
45
Ibid.
59
Affl eck to Wright, 9 August 1942, A073C06, FLWFA.
46
Neil Levine, “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Diagonal Planning
Revisited,” in Robert McCarter, ed., On and By Frank
Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (New
York: Phaidon Press, 2005), 233.
47
Wright, Autobiography, 494.
48
Ibid., 493.
49
An excellent discussion of this aspect of Wright’s
design can be found in Grant Hildebrand, The Wright
Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Houses (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991).
50
A 1941 letter from Harold Turner to Wright indicates
that the furniture was to be made by “Lyman of Montclair.”
Turner to Wright, 13 July 1941, T024C06, FLWFA.
Later that year, Affl eck indicated that he was “working
on Klearfl ex about carpet.” Affl eck to Wright, 21
December 1941, A072A04, FLWFA.
51
Oral history interview with Ruth Adler Schnee, 2002
Nov. 24-30, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution (http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-ruth-adler-schnee-12111)
(accessed 9 February 2011). The dissatisfaction with
the Wright furniture may have come more from Elizabeth
than Gregor. The existing correspondence in the
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives contains two
examples of Gregor Affl eck commenting negatively
on his wife’s furniture purchases. In the fi rst, Affl eck tells
Wright that Elizabeth “bought an AALTO chair which
I will neither sit in nor pay for,” while in the second
60
Affl eck to Wright, 18 June 1943, A077B07, FLWFA.
61
Wright, Autobiography, 516.
62
Affl eck to Wright, 6 December 1943, A078A01, FLWFA.
63
Affl eck to Wright, 7 June 1947, (A095D02), 17 November
1947 (A097C07), and 2 May 1951 (A126E05), FLWFA.
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Affl eck to Wright, 23 October 1951, A128D06, FLWFA.
65
Affl eck to Wright, 30 June 1952, A133B07, FLWFA.
66
Affl eck to Wright, 17 June 1940, A065A09, FLWFA.
67
“Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house gifted to Lawrence
Institute of Technology,” Lawrence Institute of Technology
Magazine (Winter/Spring 1978): 5.
68
Affl eck to Wright, 21 May 1942, A073B04, FLWFA.
69
Affl eck, “Client’s Report,” FLWFA.
70
“Wright-designed house gifted to Lawrence,” 4.