OMG, that's an amazing living room. And the house sounds wonderful, too. I'm not sure the new owner totally appreciates its aesthetics... he seems to value it more for its history and "name recognition."

Wright built gorgeous houses that didn't try to impress you with their size- they impress you because of their style. I don't think there are any rich people left who can grasp that concept.

Matteo, that is SO your style!

"If I wanted to have a romantic dinner," says Jim Kimsey, co-founder of AOL, "I wouldn't do it in my house, which is ostentatious. I would do it in the Frank Lloyd Wright house."

I once had dinner in a Wright house (now a museum). It was lovely.

Architecture porn gets me off.

Say what you will about FLW (he was an asshole), but he left us with some wonderful spaces.

I once had dinner in a Wright house (now a museum). It was lovely.

you cannot just tease us like that, it's not humane. TELL US MORE!

Architecture porn gets me off.

totally, architecture is insanely sexy

Gorgeous!

I'm trying to convince my brother to continue his architecture education and stay out of finance. This picture is the exactly the kind of stuff he's into. My dream is to eventually commission him to build me a house just like it.

Beautiful.

Matteo, it was the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I was the guest of the Steelcase Inc. (because they make furniture and I'm a designer who they want to spec their product); they own the building.

It's really quite beautiful, and in spectacular shape. They've got the original hand-made rugs and curtains and such, and all the furniture. Everything designed, of course, by Wright. There's even the orginal PEN at Mrs. May's writing desk.

The chefs cooked us dinner in the working kitchen, and we were served by candlelight in the dining room. It was pretty effing cool.

PS. They flew me and three other designers in a private jet. It was insanely glamorous.

There is a divinely charming "little church" in my home town that was designed by FLW (the website is atrocious, I know). They've built the fellowship hall and have been raising money to construct the sanctuary every since my pa was a kid. The story of the church is under "history" - they couldn't afford a contractor so the congregation built it themselves! In high school, we'd stage our Madrigal Dinners there, and it was such a wonderful atmosphere.

In my old hometown, there was a FLW-designed house that was badly neglected. It's been rehabbed, and I visited at Thanksgiving. It's now gorgeous.

Very cool. I'll ask my dad if he's ever been in it. He was a FLW nut back in the 1950s, when the guy was in his 90s and considered half-crazy, and has many unique Wright-related items collected before Tom Monaghan (of the Domino's fortune) bid up the price on everything. He's been in close to a third of the extant properties; I've been in maybe 10% of them.

Famously (in family terms), I did not get to tour Fallingwater, because at the time -- it was still a private residence -- no children were allowed, and I was just a year old. My parents took turns walking me in the driveway.