2015 ~ Tuesday, June 2, Rosenbaum House Museum Florence, Alabama

For entertainment, we went to the Rosenbaum House built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939.

The group waiting to go inside (from Virginia)

It reminded me of a really nice passenger train with the close proximity of each room, how everything was built into the house, in the boy's room the bunk beds built into the walls as were the closets, cabinets, & draws.

Boys Room 

I loved how the many doors leading outside opened outside instead of inside.

How the light filtered inside the home where you could take a book from the long bookshelf to read from the light that filtered in from the long windows.

Living or entertaining room with a long row of shelves for his many books

In each room you could see outside so you could watch the birds, the squirrels and the rain, also they had their own private botanical garden with Japanese Maples, a flowing fountain and this could be viewed from the boy's room, or the room for entertaining.

I loved the house!

Frank Lloyd Wright grew up in the low green hill country of Wisconsin, where he was inspired by sketches of the local river and the arch of oak trees on the surrounding riverbanks.

He used his nature as an important factor in hi tranquil designs.

Wright's design of homes was influenced by the forms of nature, the stretches of rivers and the sky.

His home and studio were in Oak Park Chicago, Illinois. In his home, he used a design of windows that let nature inside.

Letting nature inside view from the bedroom 

It had long compressed hallways and geometric patterns in the windows and throughout the house.

Wright was an apprentice of Sullivan an architect in the early 1900s.

Compressed hallways

Wright wanted to get away from the victorian style.  In his design of the Winslow home, he used the arch, and he used the color of the earth which gave the home a sense of feeling.

In his design of the Moore home, he used the horizontal form and a more private form.

Wright used an arch for the entryway, an arch for the fireplace and he used his open form design throughout the home.

In his design of the Thomas Gale home, Wright's use of light brought the outside inside, which gave the house a unique effect.

Wright used the laws of nature to create his architecture. His opening outside and nature come inside. 

In 1902 Wright designed the Susan Lawrence Dane home. Wright had $60,000 to design the home and it was a masterpiece of prairie architecture.

Wright had butterfly lamps hanging from the ceilings, he used color of golden glass elegant pieces locked in time.

Wrights used repeated shapes and designs or prairie architecture. His patterns of music and design gave unity to the Unity Temple he built-in 1904.

He used the cubic design, open rooms(where the walls seem to disappear) with the light of nature coming inside. 

His space within was to give unity. In 1908 Wright built the Robbie home which had perpetual horizontal motion.

He used his open design with wrap-around windows, free-standing rooms, with the color of trees to represent the organic architecture. His use of space within on his roofs and walls takes the home inside out.

The roof and lighting 

One of Wright's greatest designs is the Johnson Wax Building, where he uses mushroom columns and glass tubing of windows, a remarkable building.

Architecture critic Peter Blake wrote in 1960 that during the 1930s Wright built four structures of a beauty unexcelled in American before or since. Three of these are Falling Water, The Johnson Wax Administrative Building and Taliesin West. The fourth is the Rosenbaum House 

Some of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture 

Some of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture 

Front of the house

In 1935, Wright built and designed for the man and his environment. The building had its own waterfall. The building and its surroundings enhanced each other. He painted the home a dried Rhododendron color.

A home where man and nature interlock.

Wright continued to create architecture until his death in 1959, at the age of 91.

Why I like Wright's architecture is because of the way he created beauty in everyday life.

His use of life and nature in his homes brought a unique quality that will last for several lifetimes.

Wright created form and substance in his architecture.

He understood the importance of a home and family life.

He loved nature and he knew how to create that form in his architecture.

I loved the Rosenbaum home with the simplistic yet unique design, how Wright used simple nature to create such a livable environment.

It's not a home everyone would enjoy but if you love light, and nature then you would love this home.

I loved it!