I have seen many exhibits of Wright’s furniture and visited his original home in Chicago a few years back and walked the neighborhood and looked at the exterior of the 16 homes he designed in that hood. After reading this article, I really struggled to see the influence of Wright. The main thing that stood out was the lack of woodwork. Wright had a knack of combining different types of wood to create an affect on a wall or floor. He was a master at it. I don’t see any of that in this home. Even the lines are lacking. Wright liked low ceilings unless in a specific room that required studio space. He even built a loft viewing gallery in his living room! The woodwork in his original home is very valuable and original and the staff is adamant about NOT touching any of the wood surfaces and staying on rug paths. My friend got his ass reamed after leaning against the dining room wall. I can see some architectural elements in the home that ‘pluck’ some Wright ideas, but I really don’t see the influence. I tell people my home is a museum of bad taste, and is influenced by Ed Roth, though Rat Fink may disagree.
Well, in the car world, if you restore an old car where the only originality left is a great hint of its original outer body design, then it’s called a “restomod”. So, I would suggest this house is a restomod, but not of an original Wright home, rather a modern form of a house that does have some Wright influences and thus gives some hints of being a restomod of a Wright home, but yet it is an entirely different house in so many ways from a true Wright design or one influenced by him.
The Wright influences I see, however, are the obvious contrast of stone and wood, and the front doors have the multiple shape mini windows, which Wright claimed were individual frames from which to look through to see different areas of the landscape in the opposite sitting from where you were looking, but the other windows are not like this, the roof is pitched too much for a large ranch style Wright home, and the garage doors should have a modern plainess about them and not the colonial nature that they project.
I have not been to Wright’s home in Chicago, but I once took a 3-hour tour of his architectural school, Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wisconsin, and I have also toured the home he designed and built at Fallingwater in PA.
I might further add that I think Wright was the Jefferson of the 20th century.
https://www.taliesinpreservation.org
https://fallingwater.org