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Thursday, June 8, marked legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday.
To celebrate, TopTenRealEstateDeals.com rounded up a few of the most interesting Frank Lloyd Wright houses that are currently (or were recently) on the market.
Out of more than 500 structures built from his designs, there are residential homes, museums, churches, commercial buildings, and mausoleums around the United States. Wright designed homes for the super rich -- such as his most famous work, Fallingwater, for the owner of Kaufmann's department store in Pittsburgh -- but he was also an advocate of functional home designs that the middle class could afford.
Most of Wright's work was inspired by his appreciation of the simplicity and functionality of Japanese design, where large walls of Shoji doors could be pulled back to expose calm gardens that became an integral part of the whole living experience. During his career, Wright created four design styles: Prairie, Textile, Organic and Usonian.
Out of these designs have come many of the features we use and love today, such as the open floor plan, radiant floor heat, which he began using in 1935, and glass walls and doors.
He not only concentrated on the plans, but paid special attention from the building site to the interiors, designing the furniture, lighting fixtures, stained-glass windows and decorative ceilings.
Join us in a look at Frank Lloyd Wright homes as we celebrate his 150th...