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    What is the connection between Cheney, Froebel blocks, a waterfall and "Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd"?

    Question #62380. Asked by mochyn. (Feb 08 06 12:07 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Frank Lloyd Wright.

    Mamah Cheney was his mistress, who died tragically and sensationally at Taliesin, Wright's estate in Wisconsin; Wright was given Froebel blocks to play with as a child, and they seem to have had a significant influence on his design principles (you can see a set in the spectacular playroom at the Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois); "waterfall" refers to Wright's great design, Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania; and the Welsh motto, "Truth Against the Wind," is one that Wright adopted for his own.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright

    Feb 08 06, 3:27 PM
    lanfranco

    		I should add that Mamah Cheney was the wife of a client. Wright designed a house for Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1904, in Oak Park.

    Feb 08 06, 3:32 PM
    mochyn

    		being very proud of his Welsh roots he had inscribed many of his buildings with the motto and a celtic symbol

    Feb 08 06, 4:04 PM
    lanfranco

    		You should visit Taliesin East in Spring Green, Wisconsin if you ever get a chance, mochyn. Wright's grandparents bought the land partly because it reminded them of Wales. It's quite beautiful.

    Feb 08 06, 4:52 PM

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