Down to Earth: An Insider's View of Frank Lloyd Wright's Tomek House
- ISBN-10
- 0809315602
- ISBN-13
- 9780809315604
- Series
- Down to Earth
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 132
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Authors
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Maya Moran
Description
In 1974, Maya Moran and her husband purchased a dilapidated Frank Lloyd Wright house in Riverside, Illinois. In 'Down To Earth, ' Moran tells how she spent the next twenty years resurrecting Wright's 1904 Tomek House, transforming it into both a home and an architectural gem.
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