Ennis Block Trivet | Textile Block Design | AlaModerna Size:7.75 inches X 7.75 inches X 0.5 inches The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation©

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Most notable are the butterfly art glass design arching around the entry door and the sumac design used in art glass windows throughout the house

the concepts of organic architecture evolved into these Usonian characteristics: a flowing floor plan with distinct public and private areas

the house represents his earliest efforts to develop a regionally appropriate style of architecture for Southern California

Wright’s Usonian Bachman-Wilson House was originally constructed along the Millstone River in New Jersey in 1954 for Gloria Bachman and Abraham Wilson

Ennis Block Trivet | Textile Block Design | AlaModerna Size:7.75 inches X 7.75 inches X 0.5 inches The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation©In the early 1920s Frank Lloyd Wright gave new life to concrete blocks with a new building system he called textile block construction, a reference to his idea of weaving concrete blocks on the warp and weft of reinforced steel, forming an interlocking system for the fabric of the house. Crowning a ridge at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Ennis House is the most monumental and complex of the four textile block homes Wright designed. The