PA - Mill Run: Fallingwater - Barrel Chair

The Fallingwater Barrel Chair is Frank Lloyd Wright's 1939 adaptation from his earlier 1904 design for the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New York. Wright felt the barrel chair could be adapted to Fallingwater for the dining area, but the Kaufmanns preferred the more rustic, casual Italian peasant chairs. Undeterred, Wright was able to use the adaptation at Wingspread, the residence he built for S.C. Johnson and Son's Herbert Johnson. The prototype chair sits on display at the desk in the Guest House bedroom.

The Guest House at Fallingwater, built in 1939, offered additional space and privacy for company. In the heat of the summer, Liliane Kaufmann actually favored the seclusion and cross ventilation from the clerestory in the north wall of the guest house to her bedroom in the main house.

Fallingwater, sometimes referred to as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence or just the Kaufmann Residence, located within a 5,100-acre nature reserve 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built between 1936 and 1939. Built over a 30-foot flowing waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the house served as a vacation retreat for the Kaufmann family including patriarch, Edgar Kaufmann Sr., was a successful Pittsburgh businessman and president of Kaufmann's Department Store, and his son, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., who studied architecture briefly under Wright. Wright collaborated with staff engineers Mendel Glickman and William Wesley Peters on the structural design, and assigned his apprentice, Robert Mosher, as his permanent on-site representative throughout construction. Despite frequent conflicts between Wright, Kaufmann, and the construction contractor, the home and guesthouse were finally constructed at a cost of $155,000.

Fallingwater was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. It was listed among the Smithsonian's 28 Places to See Before You Die. In a 1991 poll of members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), it was voted "the best all-time work of American architecture." In 2007, Fallingwater was ranked #29 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

National Register #74001781 (1974)

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Taken in: United States / Pennsylvania / Stewart / Kaufmann (show map)

Taken on: July 11, 2011

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