About a decade after the word “Snowbird” was used for the first time to describe workers who move south for jobs, Frank Lloyd Wright became an embodiment of its modern importance. From 1937 until his death in 1959, every winter before the first snowfall, the architect Taliesin, left his home in Wisconsin, because of his residence in Arizona, Taliesin West. Wright, his then wife Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, and his trainees pack and camp for half a year and camp on the way. Because as much Wright was on the road, it would not be a distance to point out that his caravans could have used one or two caravans – for example, such as an air flow.
At a meeting in the Scottsdale -Haus from Wright in May, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation presented a collaboration with the famous trailer manufacturer, which is inspired by archive materials in Taliesin, including a trailer that he designed but never built, and a passage from one of his books. Sally Russell, the licensing director of the foundation, is intended to offer the new Airstream an owner “the experience of life in a Wright house and the daily enrichment of organic architecture”.
The Airstream and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have announced a new trailer that is based on the architect's Ussonic houses and the organic architectural principles.
Windows and skylights are designed in such a way that they let nature flow through and a steamed color scheme can be found in Wright's houses. Elements also refer to the architect's specific works. With its vertical slats, for example, a desk chair is a compact version of the Robie House chair, which can be hidden when not in use, like the foldable bench Wright for the first Unitarian meeting house in Madison, Wisconsin. The venoms of the Esette colored by Cherry are an allusion to the modular chairs of plywood, which Wright has developed for USON houses, and a accordion wall panel hides electrical checks that have been having been having been having been haunted since Wright Haser. (Once he went so far to only design a cabinet deep, just to hold horseplays at the Bradley House in Kankakee, Illinois.)
The trailer is perhaps closest in the design of Wrights USON houses, which is marketed as an affordable means for organic architecture. There is a compression release effect from the kitchen in front of the sleeping area at the back, where higher ceilings offer relief. Sleber lights and windows on all sides lure in natural light. Just like Wright's houses unique glass glass – such as balloons for the Coonley Playhouse – the Airstrom also showed a motif. A chrome leaf pattern that was designed in 1956 by an apprentice by Wright for Wright House beautiful The editor Elizabeth Gordon appears in the main entry with the appropriate punching door, two wall lights, the dining area and the cupboards.
The door and a dying screen have a leaf motif that was originally designed House beautiful Editor Elizabeth Gordon.
Wright's characteristic red square, which appeared on many of his buildings, is set alongside the trailer.
The leaf pattern also carries on the shelves above the sofa. The dining area folds off and the sofa turns into a second bed. Wooden slats over reference lights created Wright for its own houses.
A desk next to the este also folds away. The chair refers to those developed for the Robie House in Chicago.
The wood to panel on the wall hides the controls for the trailer.
Bob Wheeler, President and Chief Executive Officer at Airstream, said in an explanation: “… by focusing on Wright's design principles, we were thinking differently about materials, textures and efficiency in a small space in our floor plan.” There is the dining area that builds away, for example, and an adjacent work surface that does the same. The trailer also works a little differently than other air flows in the fact that the primary sleeping area is at the back, where it is usually the dining area and you wake up star from the star or on three sides on nature. Open shelf replaces the locking specialist cabins, and two bulla walls reflect Wright's love for geometric forms, especially circles.
A partnership of this kind has been in Wheeler's thoughts for at least 20 years, he says. He lived in a prairie-style house, which was designed by an Acolyte by Wright, in which he experienced what it is like to “be in one room with so much intention”. According to Henry Hendrix, the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: “If we are looking for partners, we would like to make sure that what they see not only two companies that come together” and adds that the common denominator between Airstream and Wright Tourism is “the ethos of traveling”.
The trailer uses Wright's effect of compression and release, whereby a narrow hallway opens up to the ESTED in front and in the bedroom at the back.
Two sofas fold down to form a bed on the back of the trailer. A mixture of sage green, turquoise and a softer version of Wright's beloved Cherokee Red and Ocker was used as a color path of the trailer.
Airstream founder Wally Byam led in 1936, a year before Wright began his migrations to Taliesin West, the clipper, Airstream's first all-aluminum product. Neither the archives in Airstream nor the foundation knew whether Wright from Byam or its trailer company was known. But Russell says: “We can speculate that if Wright ran over Airstream, he had recognized the freedom that his trailers had given his users from his book based on a passage. The living cityPublished 1958. “
Wright wrote: “… Motor house or motorcycle could go from place to place, linger on the mountain lakes or resorts, which are otherwise not accessible to him – or on suitable rivers and lakes – as the nomade once switched to his camel and tent over the desert, this type of overall mobility could be used to deal with life to a life.”
Wright designed a mobile trailer in 1939, the Dinky Diner, but it was never built. This trailer extends some of his ideas.
The bathroom has a spacious worktop and an asymmetrical mirror.
Although the Wright, which was designed in 1939, the Dinky Diner, was never created, Wright and his trainees “took a small pendant in their caravan of trucks and cars, which included kitchen items such as a buttonherd, a water chamber, and a few pans to get up at breakfast,” says Russell. You can ask yourself what Wright thinks of an Airstrom trailer that now bears his name?
“It is very important that we are not frozen in time, but instead, instead [build on] Something that Wright did when he was alive, “says Hendrix. In the 1950s, Wright began to have his work as a way to democratize design, a core principle of its work philosophy. In recent years according to partnerships with people such as Stahlkassenstock companies that with the handicrafts -Haben -Bastel -Bastel -Bastel -Crafts -hand handicrafts -kten -Kabtel -kabtel -kumen -kaben -Kaben -Kaben -Kaben -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Sneaker -Schen -Schen -Sneaker -Sneaker -Bastel – has taken a core destruction.
A hatch on the rear flank of windows ensures a connection with the adjustment of the trailer.
The arrangement of the trailer of windows and skylight brings the outside to the outside, as Wright was always intended with its houses.
“[Wright] I wanted to know the world around him … and changed the liver of the people, “explains Hendrix in a video in which the air flow was announced. At this point, build up:” Wright wanted to bring the interiors and the outside through diligent glass and many windows “, as to what the trailer prescribes – they are in a protected place to be nearby, but feel like nature.
According to Jay Cullis, a company historian of Airstream, BYAM is always refined and perfected [the trailers] Over the years. He does this for decades to live the perfect life. “Like BYAM, Wright had a relentless curiosity and preference for perfection. Like Airstream owner, Wright's fan base is huge – many trips through the country to see his work.” Wally and Frank are Renaissance men, “says Cullis. They are two design icons. It is not just a design -it is nature and community. They are not these static things that play in factories and museums. They are a attitude to life.”
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