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SAMARA Furniture and Its Use


Overview
SAMARA Furniture and Its Use


Doug Wintin
The Architect Within

Wally Rogers
Dining Table and Chairs


John Christian
The Owner's View

Jerry Johnson
The Eclectic Mr. Wright

Ted and Lynn Osborn
Thoughts About FLLW
Furniture Designs


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SAMARA Education Series
SAMARA Furniture and Its Use
Fall 1999 - The Architect Within
   Introduction
   Organic Whole
   Human Scale
   Usonian Style

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SAMARA Education Series
Fall 1999

SAMARA Furniture and Its Use
In A Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Home

The Architect Within
Doug Wintin




Organic Whole

As his old master used to say, Frank Lloyd Wright always thought simple - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Wright's designs were simple enough in nature that the on-site carpenter or homeowner could often construct the furniture without the having to utilize highly skilled craftsmen. The only design style that truly was for and by the "common man". Creating well-designed furnishings for every man is an example of organic architecture as the "architecture of democracy".

This is not to say that Usonian furnishings are common, far from it. The Usonian furnishings at SAMARA are as much a part of the architecture as the fireplace or inglenook. Key to the organic characteristics of the architecture is the ability of the eye to flow freely from within the home to the surroundings creating a oneness with Nature.

The furnishings at SAMARA are used to enhance this principle of Wright's architecture. The human scale, construction materials, colors and textures all play roles in the final feeling of the home as an integrated, organic whole as Wright intended when the furnishings of SAMARA were specified.

The Architect Within
Introduction | Organic Whole
Human Scale | Usonian Style


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