Sonoran Desert Colors at SAMARA
The pink shades of SAMARA appear like the facets of a kaleidoscope focused on the landscape of the Sonoran Desert in south central Arizona. Frank Lloyd Wright's keen mind for using color to create natural living environments helps make him the genius that he is of architectural landscape and design.
Twenty feet from the SAMARA entrance gate at the edge of the property on Woodland Avenue, a reddish-pink brick drive begins to replicate the vision Frank Lloyd Wright created from the rose palette he used so liberally and faithfully in his works of the desert.
Even the Philippine mahogany lamp post leading up and along the driveway at SAMARA glistens in the sunshine to cast lovely, pink hues in unison with the branches and bark of pine trees in the background.
Almost anywhere you look at SAMARA there are tell-tale signs that beckon us to recognize and be stirred by shades of the desert palette. With the sun shining brightly in the Indiana sky, soft shades of pink reflect, like on the desert floor, from patterned bricks of the driveway, bricked walls of the house and the rectangular-shaped chimney mass above the SAMARA upper roof line.