SAMARA EDUCATION SERIES
Fall 2000
SAMARA Colors and Their Use
A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece

Frank Lloyd Wright's Colors and Their Use in the Usonian Home
John E. Christian
SAMARA Owner and Original Client
Living Room

Guest Bedroom

SAMARA Living Room and Guest Bed Room
Nature's Color Palette

The variety of colors in the living and guest bedrooms combined with the colors of the building materials, creates an one-of-a-kind design with strong geometrics and wide open spaces, all steming from an unusually magnificant location on the building lot.

Together, these features create the full signature of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. With the colors selected enhanced by the light shining through southeast glass walls, and through the SAMARA light screens depicting winged seeds in motion located in the clerestory windows, a glow of warmth suffuses through the whole house.

Uniform sized large glass plate windows and curtains frame the foliage of evergreen trees and shrubs as a way to make Nature's colors an integral part of the living space. It's the full range of natural colors located on the lot that Frank Lloyd Wright uses to complement the prominent color palette he laid out inside of the house.

All of the arts used by Mr. Wright skillfully drawn together with the colors create a stunning poetic and harmonious setting for every-day living and for entertaining.
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