Taliesin Soiree

Monday evening APT employees were treated to cocktails and hors dourves at Taliesin. Yes, at Frank Lloyd Wright's WI homestead and studio. We parked on the lawn. We drank in the living room. We traversed the carpets with shoes on. Photos do not do the house justice. Granted the restoration of his original buildings is a engineering nightmare, but the spaces themselves are unbelievable. Several of the original Chinese screens were down for repair, but photo murals of the originals maintained the look of each room. The spaces are incredibly dynamic and very organic. From every room in the house the view over the landscape is amazing. At a few junctures, you can see the land in all four directions as well. What a perfect evening for it on top of it all. The sky was clear and the moon nearly full. The most amazing part is the house is lived in. That gives the space a whole new dynamic. I've wandered through FLW rooms in the Met Museum in NY, and the feeling was not the least bit similar, though the architecture and furnishings are similar. The museums are stagnant, less interesting, too clean. These were rooms meant to be lived in. Michael Miller, the architecture history prof will shit himself to hear about this casual gathering of artisan at this historic landmark.