The Sonoran Rose Palette of SAMARA
When exposed to the bright sunlight, the Sonoran Desert gives up to the human senses an unusual palette of color with its subtle shades of beige, sand and ivory. Reflecting light casts a soft glow across the surrounding landscape and vegetation painting it with a distinctively pink hue.
Frank Lloyd Wright takes what the desert environment gives him and crafts it into a stunning art form capable of revealing the very nature of his dream for all humankind.
In the Sonoran Desert, Wright realized his vision of American-style architecture for its people. At SAMARA, as a late Usonian design, Wright found a way to paint a mid-western, sloping terrain with the desert palette characteristic of the Southwest.
It would be twenty years after the establishment of Taliesin West in Arizona that Wright would sketch out in his mind and on his drawing table the way SAMARA would look to his clients John and Kay Christian.
Little could they know about the use of color and especially in the way Mr. Wright would bring the natural colors of the Sonoran desert, imagined only by him at the foothills of the McDowell Mountains, into their lives.