
The travels of Frank Lloyd Wright’s office for Kaufmann
The director of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1937 iconic house Fallingwater, Lynda Waggoner, recently spoke at the John Adams Institute. Two of our staunch followers, Rick and Marga Donehoo, told me later that they had seen the office that Wright designed in that same year for Fallingwater’s owner, Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Kaufmann used the office until his death in 1955. It is now the only complete, original FLW interior in Europe. But how did the office from Pittsburgh end up in London? Read the article…