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Tour of Taliesin West This visit: a forty-year desire fulfilled.
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| Pre-Tour | Starting point | Studio | |
| Bruce's detail | Studio exterior | Main exterior | |
| Living room | Bedroom suite | Outside living room | |
| Media room (?) | Outside Main Studio | Theater | |
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| Bruce has always wanted to see it. Due to COVID, all such places require advance reservations and they are precious. We bent our schedule to the available. | |||
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On our entire route we had to move fast. Due to COVID, every visit we had to book in advance. So we were moving at greatest speed from place to place. Lunches were low priority. We hastily consume our supermarket salad squatting in the shade of the parking shed a few minutes prior to our tour.
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Wonderful space, but uninhabitable without AC. Inconspicuous ducts lead to a huge AC apparatus some distance away. Wright and his devotees knew nothing of solar design. Nor did anyone at that time.
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The guide invited us to look beneath and behind, and I did. In my young days I tried to make furniture like this. Only where Wright prevailed has such furniture not been burned in fury by those who tried to use it.
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Wonderful; impractical on so many counts.
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The postcard shots.
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_21may08-n_0113.jpg The view from the building to the desert.  |
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Speaks for itself.
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Wright loved performing arts.
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One of many spaces of which I had never seen photos. Taliesin evolved over time. This was among the later-built.
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