The Sonoran Desert Revisited
With their rose-colored sections, the curved sidewalks leading to the Adelman Residence mimic the colors of the desert floor. This ivory and beige textile block home, with a two-story living room and kitchen, stretches out to meet the rose-colored curbs and borders lining its gravel driveway.
The significance of Wright's use of rose-colored materials impressed me the most while flying out of Phoenix and peering down on Arizona's Sonoran Desert. With the sun setting behind me in the western sky, from high in the November sky, the desert shone like the uniform, pink-colored concrete I had observed just hours earlier at the Biltmore Hotel, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, and private homes in and around Phoenix.