Touring Tirranna
John Hill
26. 3月 2024
Photo: Screenshot of “Inside One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Final-Ever Designs” by Architectural Digest
Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, gives a tour of Tirranna, a late but lesser-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for a “breathtaking” setting in New Canaan, Connecticut, that, Graff says, “rivals even Wright's most famous work, Fallingwater, in the way the house engages nature.”
As he takes viewers around Tirranna and its setting, Graff gives some background on the house and its additions, which were carried out by Wright not long before he died in 1959, but he spends most of the film's fourteen minutes describing the distinct solar hemicycle design, the palette of materials Wright employed, the house's rooms and furnishings, and the way the house interacts with nature. Of the many films produced by Architectural Digest — we've featured a couple of them previously — it is one of the best.