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WEEKEND MAG
Buying something Frank Lloyd Wright designed doesn't have to empty your wallet. Take for example his windows.
The Wright windows you'll see for sale at auction come from the many homes he designed. Wright was a Chicago architect who for almost 60 years, starting in the 1890s, drew up plans for houses and designed the furniture, windows and fixtures to go with them. He didn't see furniture and fixtures as separate ingredients, but part of the whole.
Here was an architect who worked with, not against, the approaching machine age. He took issue with the machine-made interiors he witnessed in homes, but never the machine itself. "The machine is here to stay," he said. "It is the forerunner of the democracy that is our dearest hope."