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Posted by ++ on August 5, 2008, 3:38 pm
RicodJour wrote:
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> This may surprise some who've heard, well, yeah, but it's a dry heat",
> but it's fookin hot there in July.
> I visited Taliesin West and took the Behind The Scenes Tour. 60 bucks
> for three hours was a little surprising, but there were only six of us
> on the tour and we got to hear FLLW's personal physician (?!) and Roy
> Arnold (one of Wright's original/surviving apprentices) speak. They
> also served a small very tasty snack plate in the dining room.
> To say the place needs an extreme historical landmark makeover is
> putting it mildly.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5034731
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> The concrete looks good, but pretty much everything else on the
> exterior of the buildings needs a lot of help. I'm curious how much
> the place has deteriorated in the last twenty years or whether they
> are barely holding their own. Anyone here visit the place?
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never visited. Met a lot of people who lived there, though, most
interesting of which was Svetlana Stalina who lived there while married
for a while to an architect.
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> I also visited Cosanti. http://www.waltlockley.com/cosanti/cosanti.htm
> Paolo Solieri is apparently still in residence, but I guess he was
> reclusing while I was there. I watched one of the foundry pours of
> their bronze wind chimes/bells and that was very interesting. Why
> someone in AZ in the middle of July would want a job that makes Hell
> look like an Autumn vacation, I'll never know.
>
Agree. I visited Acrosanti in the summer, too, found the bells a nice
feature (no pouring that day) and it was 115 in the shade. A lot of the
metalwork was rusting, the exhibits looked more than a tad worn and if I
hadn't known it was elsewhere, I would have thought it defined death
valley and dusty dreams both. Saw a couple unique lizards, tried to
juxtapose what I had read about its foundation in my youth, and bought
some excellent fragrant dried herbs. Two years of excellent rosemary
chicken and a buncha stocking stuffer type gifts came outa that trip.
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> but it's fookin hot there in July.
> I visited Taliesin West and took the Behind The Scenes Tour. 60 bucks
> for three hours was a little surprising, but there were only six of us
> on the tour and we got to hear FLLW's personal physician (?!) and Roy
> Arnold (one of Wright's original/surviving apprentices) speak. They
> also served a small very tasty snack plate in the dining room.
> To say the place needs an extreme historical landmark makeover is
> putting it mildly.