Docent Jim Beardsley has shared an article that recently appeared in UU World, a publication of the Unitarian Universalist Church, on The House Beautiful. Thank you so much, Jim!
While a draftsman for Joseph Lyman Silsbee in Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright worked on commissions relating to his family's close association with the Unitarian Church. In 1886, his family commissioned the Unity Chapel in Spring Green, WI, and two years later, he worked on All Souls Church in Chicago, had been founded by his uncle, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones.
Wright's association with the Unitarian Church continued a decade later, when the tiny Auvergne Press published a hand-printed edition of the Rev. Willian Channon Gannett's essay, The House Beautiful. Working with his former client and amateur printer William H. Winslow, Wright contributed both drawings and nature photographs to the volume.
Of the original 90 copies of the book, one surviving copy is now in the University of Rochester's Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation.
The book was re-printed a few times over the years, most recently in 2006 by Pomegranate. The Graycliff Pavilion Shop carried it at that time, but its now out of print. (Although used copies are still available on-line.) Pomegranate also has notecards based on Wright's designs for the book....if you'd like to order a box, please talk to Ryan in the shop.
To read the article provided by Jim Beardsley, please see: Frank Lloyd Wright's Beautiful book
For a complete history, with photos, of The House Beautiful, see: The House Beautiful
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