As a larger than life personality, Frank Lloyd Wright commanded attention, admiration, and wonder at his unquenchable creativity as an architect, designer of landscapes, ornamental patterns, and a way of life. He engaged both triumph and tragedy in his checkered life of nine decades. His self-proclaimed “honest arrogance” charmed and irritated people from all walks of life.
Taliesin transports you to another place. It has a mysterious quality in the way it is built into the landscape, but it is stories of what kind of life was lived in such a place that fascinated me. Built for a woman who was not Wright’s wife, suffering through crazed murders and two fires, a setting for unusual programs of spiritual gurus, all made for a place that seemed far removed from south-central Wisconsin. The art all around from Asia...