Another house built by Frank Lloyd Wright is for sale in California

In California, the house “Fossett Farm”, designed by the father of American modernism Frank Lloyd Wright, is for sale. It can be purchased for $ 4.25 million.

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The house called “Fawcett Farm” (Fawcett Farm) stands among farmland in Los Banos, California and has an area of 375 square meters. meters. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1961 for the famous Chicago Bears player Buck Fawcett, whose name still bears. At the request of the last owners, a full—fledged restoration was carried out in it, marked with professional awards, and the work was carried out by the grandson of the famous architect – Eric Lloyd Wright.

Photo: Jim Simmons Photography

Photo: Jim Simmons Photography

For connoisseurs of modern architecture, this building is an ideal example of a Yuson house. We are talking about budget houses that the architect has been developing since the early 1930s for the middle class. Economical, compact, mostly single—storey, these buildings were to become future blocks of “Cities of Wide Horizons” – Frank Lloyd Wright’s urban planning concept, according to which large megacities should “deurbanize” and spread across agricultural suburbs. The name Usonian goes back to the abbreviation U.S.O.N.A. (Unites States of Northern America).

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These houses were intended for middle-class American families: L-shaped, one floor, private garden or terrace, large cantilevered overhangs, local materials, dormer windows and, most importantly, a strong visual connection of internal and external space.

“We no longer have external and internal space as separate units. Now the outer can go in, and the inner can go out. They become one,” the architect wrote.

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The main interiors are decorated in warm colors and flooded with light coming through large windows. Interior decoration of the rooms in the early 1960s was done by designer Cornelia Brierly (1913-2021), she designed the main open-plan living room, seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, a kitchen and dining room, as well as a laundry area.