Toker, Franklin.

Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house / Franklin Toker. - New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003. - 479 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-462) and index.

One : The dead man of modern architecture plans a comeback - Two: E.J. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh suffers humiliation of another sort - Three: Bear run: The land awaiting - Four: Frank Lloyd Wright seeks a client, gets a patron - Five: The design of fallingwater struggles nine months to be born - Six: Raising fallingwater - Seven: Fallingwater gets an interior - Eight: Fabricating fallingwater - I. The hype that sold it - Nine: Fabricating fallingwater - II. The buzz that made America buy it - Ten: The Kaufmanns showcase fallingwater and vice versa - Eleven: The Rannaissance prince in winter - Twelve: Edgar Kaufmann Jr., True Lord of fallingwater - Epilogue: Fallingwater for ourselves - Author's note - Source notes - Index - Illustration credits.

0375710159 (pbk.)


Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 --Criticism and interpretation.
Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955 --Homes and haunts--Pennsylvania.


Fallingwater (Pa.)

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