SAMARA Experience
One of Wright's Greatest Works of Art
Twentieth Gift
Modeling clay (Twentieth Gift) is used as a material to create and then transform structures from one shape into another. In the hands of Frank Lloyd Wright, he was able to create the fundamental principles of Usonian architecture as transformations of geometric forms and express them as beautiful works of art.
As a child of the original Kindergarten, Froebel's influence on Wright's abilities and skills as an architect are recognized and well documented.
For just under $11.00, Anna Lloyd Wright in 1876 could have purchased a complete set of Froebel Gifts. From small packages of simple blocks, tiles, papers, sticks, rings, threads and peas on a kindergarten ruled-top table sprang large, complex buildings.
The unit lines on the kindergarten table served as templates for discovering geometric elements made visible to the child-mind. Lucky for us, today, starting with materials of the square and sphere, and the triangle with its 30 and 60 degree angles, we can experience SAMARA as one of Wright's greatest works of art.