Lloyd Wright’s Hollywood Concrete Home!

Lloyd Wright’s Hollywood Concrete Home!

Lloyd Wright's Hollywood Concrete Home!

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The art of architecture, design and appreciation for landscape architecture followed three generations of Wrights. First Frank Lloyd, then his eldest son, Frank Lloyd, Jr. (Lloyd), and then his grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright, followed in their father’s and grandfather’s footsteps. Maybe the latter two chose the path because they grew up in their father’s studios that became their environment. Frank Lloyd, Sr. got the family ball rolling by creating designs more closely adapted to functional human needs than earlier homes. Victorian curlycues and cluttery furnishings were fine when labor was cheap and the household staff managed the dusting and cleaning of the huge rooms, but as family life evolved to smaller families, and maids and cooks became a thing of the past, Wright’s home designs traded clutter for fine clean lines and natural materials blended with new materials such as concrete. No longer did the lady of the house have to satisfy herself with parlor palms and ferns indoors and a long walk to her flower garden to pick some roses. Wright opened up the walls with glass creating a vanishing threshold between inside and out. The garden became part of everyday life in good weather and foul. Without television and electronics, conversation was the norm and when talk ran out, reading and hobbies were enjoyed in the same room together made cozy by the glow of a crackling fire, the centerpiece of the home.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (Lloyd) continued in his father’s footsteps with a few deviations into set production and landscape architecture in the beginning which, though he remained true to the Wright basics, gave his designs a more theatrical, Mesoamerican twist producing an almost "temple" ambiance. Lloyd invented the system of repeated pattern of pre-cast concrete blocks, which was a precursor to his father's more famous "textile block" houses. Lloyd Wright designed a number of important buildings that are on the National Register such as the Sowden House and the Wayfarers Chapel, both in California.

Now hitting the market for the first time in more than three decades is his Bollman House, which he designed in 1922. Mayan inspired and sited on an 8,102-square-foot lot, the 2,518-square-foot, two-story residence features four bedrooms, two baths, concrete slab floors and a stone fireplace. When interior decorator, Mimi London, bought the home in 1983, both house and grounds were in a somewhat dilapidated state of disrepair. London went about restoring the home and made renovations to readapt it to today’s expectations with new kitchen, bathrooms and an expansion of living space into the attached garage. The results won London two covers on "Architectural Digest." According to the photos of the interior, most rooms, including the master bath, open out onto a private patio and garden filled with tropical plantings. For more information.

The Wright legacy lives on in Lloyd Wright’s Hollywood, California, Bollman House now for sale for the first time in over thirty years. Priced at $1.9 million with sale pending.

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