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| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) - revolutionized American Architecture during a seventy-two year career. His ideas and their application continue to significantly influence design throughout the world. Along with designing a wide variety of structures, he ably and expertly expressed his ideas in many ways including drawings, writings, and teaching. | ||||
| Front design prints have a small signature block or design coda centered on the back between your shoulder blades. Back print design have a small signature block or design coda over the heart. Image dimensions are given in the description. All designs are discontinued as the printer no longer has a license to manufacture these shirts. Inventory is limited to stock on hand. | ||||
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Chicago T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W27 front design t-shirt black 11.5" x 9.5" XL, L, M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
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Coonley Windows T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W04 back design with small heart print t-shirt white 9.5" x 11.25" XL, S $30.00 XX $34.00 issue. A 14 year old boy named Phillip had written FLW asking for the definition of an architect". longsleeve front design t-shirt S $37.00 youth t-shirts l, s $26.00 | |||
| The Avery Coonley House was Constructed 1908-12, this is a residential estate of several buildings built on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Riverside, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It is itself a National Historic Landmark and is included in another National Historic Landmark, the Riverside Historic District. This shirt shows windows designed by Wright for the Avery Coonley Playhouse. They are considered to be some of the finest accomplishments in art glass. With asymetrical complex outlines and suggestions of flags, balloons, and confetti, the brightly colored windows bring to mind images of a parade. | ||||
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Definition Of An Architect T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W02 front design t-shirt blue XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 front design long sleeved t-shirt blue S $30.00 front design t-shirt natural S $30.00 front design long sleeved t-shirt natural XL $30.00 | |||
| FLW was a very incisive, engaging speaker and an inspiring mentor. He was equally adept at expressing himself with the written word as he was with his architectural designs. House Beautiful magazine featured one of his letters in a 1959 issue. A 14 year old boy named Phillip had written FLW asking for the definition of an "architect". Wright's written reply to Phillip was the letter reproduced identically in the magazine and represented on this t-shirt. | ||||
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Element Of Design T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W31 front design t-shirt stone 14.5" x 3.5" L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| This t-shirt design has been adapted from FLW's pencil sketch of an unrealized art-glass window that was originally based on archival drawing 1201.005 Designed for the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, IL. 1912. | ||||
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Falling Water Perspective T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W26 front design t-shirt natural 12.5" x 8.5" XL S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| The Edgar J Kaufman SR. Residence is FLW's most recognized and most innovative residential design. Fallingwater is an excellent example of his strong affinity to organic design. Wright's organic design is inspired by natural forms, drawing in it's variety and creativity from nature itself. Fallingwater's cantilevered terraces soar dramatically over a natural waterfall. The interior of the house, thru wild bands of windows, blends seamlessly into the surrounding woods, creating a harmony of place, person and materials. Now a museum, it has been visited by more than four million people (me included). | ||||
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Hoffman House Rug T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W33 front design t-shirt graphite 11" x 9" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| The design elements represented on this shirt are details from the rug created by Wright for the Max Hoffman residence in Rye, NY (1957) to be placed in the home's living room. The complete design included multiple colorful, intersecting circles with square accents. The rug was never made for the Hoffman residence, but woven later and is now in FLW's "Taliesin" in Spring Green, WI. | ||||
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Imperial Fan T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W35 front design t-shirt black 10.5 x 11.5" XL, L, M, S $30.00 | |||
| The Imperial Hotel, constructed 1913-1922 in Tokyo, Japan, was one of FLW's largest and most extravagant projects. A long time admirer of Japanese art and architecture, Wright personally designed nearly every detail of the opulent hotel including rugs, furniture, lighting and peacock murals. The peacock motif appeared throughout the hotel. This design is an adaptation of a detail from the Imperial Hotel banquet hall peacock motif. In 1923, This unique, modular and modern structure survived Japan's worst recorded earthquake, while many surrounding buildings were destroyed. This added to the hotel's fame and greatly enhanced Wright's reputation as an architect. Although the Imperial Hotel was the premier luxury hotel in Tokyo for decades, it was finally demolished in 1968. The main entrance and lobby of the hotel were preserved and reconstructed at the Museum Meiji-Mura, an architectural park near Nagoya, Japan. | ||||
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Imperial Peacock T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W14 front design t-shirt black 5" x 5.5" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 ladies fitted t-shirt plum L, M, S $30.00 | |||
| The peacock motif appeared throughout the Imperial Hotel including "Peacock Alley" the lavish main lobby where the affluent would socialize. | ||||
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Johnson Wax Building T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W25 front design t-shirt ice grey XL, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| As the new president of the family business, Herbert Johnson exhibited uncommon faith and foresight by commissioning FKW in 1936. Wright was nearly 70 when he accepted the assignment which was to be his first corporate headquarters in 30 years. After Wright dramatically defended his unconventional tree-like column design to to the city of Racine, Wisconsin, the building received public accolades. The success of the building's design helped reinvigorated Wright's career. The structure has been widely considered a major milestone in commercial architecture, and is still serving the intended purpose. The shirt has the FLW quote "Space is the breath of art" beneath the image. | ||||
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July Fourth T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W18 front design t-shirt white XL, S $30.00 | |||
| In 1927 FLW designed a series of twelve monthly covers based on seasonal themes for Liberty Magazine When finished Liberty judged the covers to be too avant-garde to be published. The magazine returned Wright's presentation drawings and they became the basis for later interpretations executed in diverse media. In 1937 "July Fourth" became the only design in this series to make it's way onto the cover of a nationally distributed publication, Town and Country. | ||||
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Kaufman House "Fallingwater" T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W06 front design t-shirt stone XL, M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
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March Balloons T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W13 front design t-shirt natural 9" x 10" M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| In this cover for the March issue, Wright reveals his life-long interest in and affection for geometric shapes, in particular, the circle. At first appearing as an assemblage of colorful balloons, the design celebrates Wrights belief that a circle represents wholeness and completeness, a vision evident in Wright's architectural legacy. | ||||
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March Balloons T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W13 front design t-shirt navy 9.5" x 12" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
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May Basket T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W39 front design t-shirt white 9" x9" XL, L, M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| In 1927 FLW designed a series of twelve monthly covers based on seasonal themes for Liberty Magazine When finished Liberty judged the covers to be too avant-garde to be published. The magazine returned Wright's presentation drawings and they became the basis for later interpretations executed in diverse media.The pattern is a geometric interpretation of flowers and ribbons, and is typical of Wright's use of nature in design. | ||||
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Organic Commandment T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W05 front design t-shirt black 12" x 6.5" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| FLW is best known for being a brilliant architect though he was also an inspiring educator and a charismatic speaker. Mr Wright's Organic Commandments are simple yet graphically powerful and profound. First issued as a limited print run by Wright's Taliesin Press in 1934, the principles expressed here assumed a broader application as a life philosophy and continue to have a significant impact on the fields of architecture and design. The source of the artwork adapted for this t-shirt is a Christmas card designed by Me Wright for the Taliesin Fellowship and their friends. | ||||
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Pencils T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W03 front design t-shirt white 11" x 4.5" XL, L, M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| FLW, widely regarded as the most influential architect of his time, was a master of rendering images with colored pencils. He once said, "Colors - in pastel or crayon - always a thrill! To this day I love to hold qa handful of many colored pencils and open my hand to see them lying loose upon my palm in the light." The pencils in this image, now in FLW Archives, were on Wright's desk at the time of his death. | ||||
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Robie House T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W15 front design t-shirt stone XL, L, M $30.00 | |||
| I enjoyed living across the street on the first floor with an excellent view of the Robie house when I was a freshman at the University of Chicago. | ||||
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Saguaro Forms T-shirt Frank Lloyd W right Collection W01 front design t-shirt sage 9" x 11" M $30.00 | |||
| This t-shirt is adapted from one of those covers. "Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers" , Which was eventually published in 1930 on the cover of Modern Architecture, a compilation of lectures presented by Wright at Princeton University. The Square shapes at the top of the cactus arms represent blooms of the Saguaro, State flower of Arizona, which are seen throughout the grounds of Taliesin West Wright's winter home. | ||||
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Solomon R Guggenheim Museum T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W16 front design t-shirt black L, M, S $30.00 | |||
| In a response to a critique of the Guggenheim, FLW said that it was his intention "to make the building and the painting an uninterrupted symphony such as never Existed in the World of Art before". To achieve this, he chose a site near the peace and tranquility of Central Park, and after many trials he chose an organic form that admits natural diffused light from above and at every level. He said further that the building "is one great space in a continuous floor. The eye encounters no abrupt change but is gently led as if at the edge of the shore watching an unbreaking wave." | ||||
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Sumac Windows T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W07 front design t-shirt dark chocolate 11" x 4" XL, L, M $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| The Dana House in Springfield, IL is a tour de force of FLW's "Prairie" style. Wright's philosophy of connecting the natural world and architecture is literally brought to light in the window designs of the Dana house. Wright has incorporated architectural forms from nature with selected views of the outside world. For the Dana house wright used sumac, butterflies and other natural forms in over 250 art glass windows. | ||||
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Taliesin T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W23 front design t-shirt navy XL, L, M, S $30.00 | |||
| Sited on a hill in the Wisconsin Valley settled by Mr Wright's mother's family., Taliesin is named after a 6th century Welsh poet whose name translates as "shining" or "radiant" brow. Begun in 1911, Taliesin is the realization of many of Mr. Wright's ideas pertaining to organic architecture. The building was rebuilt following a fire in 1914, and again after another fire in 1925. The Taliesin Fellowship, an association of architects, architecture students and designers was begun here in 1932. Some of Mr. Wright's most famous buildings had design origins at Taliesin, among them Fallingwater and the administration building of S.C. Johnson. | ||||
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Tree of Life T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W30 back design with small heart print t-shirt natural 7.25" x 12.5" L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| Architect Frank Lloyd Wright theorized that design was like a living organism, in that all parts were equally important. Therefor wright called for windows, lamps, rugs, buildings and vistas to receive equal design attention in his architectural commissions. Adapted from a casement window from Wright's Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, this design is a stylized, natural form that brings in the outdoors while providing additional privacy to those inside. | ||||
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Wright Graphic T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W08 front design t-shirt graphite 9" x 6.75" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
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Waterlilies T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W21 back design with small heart print t-shirt white 9" x 9" XL $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| Other than for his buildings, FLW is best known for his art glass designs and furniture. His philosophy of connecting the natural world and architecture is brought literally to light in his windows. Calling them "light screens", he often incorporated architectural themes from nature with selected views of the outside world. This design from an early Wright drawing, with it's graceful geometric pattern of flowers and lily pads floating on a tranquil pond, was never actually realized in glass. | ||||
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Whirling Arrows T-shirt Frank Lloyd Wright Collection W19 front design t-shirt burnt orange 10" x 5" XL, L, M, S $30.00 XX $34.00 | |||
| These four variations of the Whirling Arrow design are but four of more than two dozen variations deve,loped bu FLW over the years 1932 to1940. His original inspiration may have been a petroglyph found on the site of Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, which still stands at the entrance to the campus today. Mr Wright stated that it reminded him of two hands clasped in a gesture of friendship. | ||||
| MOTAWI TILEWORKS - Since 1992, the artisans at Motawi Tileworks have hand crafted art tile in their Ann Arbor, Michigan studio. These distinctive tiles are known for their rich glazes and uniquely American designs, inspired by nature, art and architecture. At Motawi, there is a shared belief that everyone is better off when they have a little bit of beauty in their daily lives. | ||||
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Bleeding Heart T-shirt Motawi Tileworks Collection T12 front design ladies cut t-shirt frost pink XL $26.00 | |||
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Poppy Tile T-shirt Motawi Tileworks Collection T12 front design ladies cut t-shirt pistachio XL $26.00 | |||
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Pine Landscape T-shirt Motawi Tileworks Collection T13 front design t-shirt dark chocolate M $26.00 XX $26.00 | |||
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Songbird T-shirt Motawi Tileworks Collection T11 front design t-shirt black XL, L, M, S $26.00 XX $30.00 | |||
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Songbird Triptych T-shirt Motawi Tileworks Collection T17 front design ladies cut t-shirt violet XL, L, M, $26.00 XX $30.00 | |||
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Raven at Midnight T-shirt LG X5G front design tshirt PVC-free water-based ink light blue tee shirts XL, L, M, S $26.00 | |||
| For more formal days, there is a large collection of Frank Lloyd Wright Neckties plus other Signature Architects and Architecture Neckties. There are many ties with elements of the Decorative Arts plus many pages of ties with design elements from Civilizations around the World. | ||||
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