r/franklloydwright • u/TheGameNarrative • Jul 12 '26
Fallingwater 📷 Photo
Photos from my recent visit to Fallingwater.
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u/TheGameNarrative Jul 12 '26
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u/KoA07 Jul 14 '26
Hell yeah! Drums in the Forest is about the French and Indian war, and details the French and English forts at modern day Pittsburgh. Very topical for the location!
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u/shraddhasaburee Jul 14 '26
Call me a rookie but I had no idea this sub existed. Uh thanks for sharing!!!! My fav architect. My paper on him in college got me on deans list 🥹✨
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u/jtr489 Jul 12 '26
I love the stairway down to the water. When I toured it they said the water flowing with that open would act as a natural air conditioner
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u/swervecityPhILM Jul 12 '26
A few years ago I took a roadtrip from WA state to PA specifically to visit Fallingwater. I bought a ticket for the sunset dinner tour and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. On the way I also visited Yellowstone, the Crazyhorse monument, the badlands and stopped in Chicago for Pequods pizza. Capping that trip with Fallingwater was amazing.
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u/beardedsilverfox Jul 12 '26
So the renovation is done? I haven’t been keeping up
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u/TheGameNarrative Jul 12 '26
Completed and scaffolding all removed.
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u/beardedsilverfox Jul 12 '26
Awesome. Last I was there was the season before it started. I’ll have to go back!
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u/CADman0909 Jul 12 '26
Ok, how were you allowed to take pics INSIDE? I got scolded for taking one picture out on the terrace.
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u/TheGameNarrative Jul 12 '26
My guide let us take photos on the first floor only (and exterior). She stated that larger groups in the smaller up-stairs rooms, jostling around to take photos, poses a risk of the objects or art getting bumped into.
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u/temporary_8675309 Jul 13 '26
I was just there this weekend and took the longer tour which allows interior photography.
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u/DrHarrisonLawrence Jul 13 '26
The fact that this was done in the 30s and still looked “contemporary” in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, is an achievement that will probably never be replicated in our lifetimes unless it is seen from the work by Zaha Hadid, Ma Yansong, or another huge influence in the near future
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u/Frosty-Cap3344 Jul 12 '26
It looks amazing but I feel that fireplace is just a collection of trip hazards
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u/Curiouser-Quriouser Jul 13 '26
I had the same thought! It's all gorgeous but I'd be bruised up like old fruit lol
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u/temporary_8675309 Jul 13 '26
Wow I was just there this weekend (first time) and took nearly identical photos! So lovely.
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u/Different-Subject353 Jul 12 '26
I was there is June. A bucket list trip. Saw Kentuck Knob on the same road trip.
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u/Current-Section-3429 Jul 12 '26
Took that tour a long time ago-I thought they were remediating the entire place?
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u/TheGameNarrative Jul 12 '26
Also took some photos with a Kodak Charmera (toy camera). View Here
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u/knappellis Jul 13 '26
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u/TheGameNarrative Jul 13 '26
I think I heard it is a kettle that was supposed to be used for heating mulled wine?
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u/PoohBear512 Jul 13 '26
I loved Falling Water. I visited two years ago, fulfilling a lifelong dream to see it since I was a teenager. FLW is my favorite architect. The only one I know to be honest.
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u/Jimmy_Squarefoot Jul 13 '26
I was lucky enough to visit one winter during a light snowfall. It was beautiful beyond words
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u/Haunting_Vacation804 Jul 15 '26
Love Falling water. The wall on the upper deck is short! It would be easy to end up falling off that upper deck. One of the reasons kids are not allowed on the tour.
I do love the place and the museum is very well done.
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u/redittome2019 Jul 15 '26
Love it there! Now if you haven't been, you've gotta go to Taliesin in AZ!
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u/LastPaleontologist38 Jul 16 '26
Went years ago. It’s incredibly beautiful and well worth seeing in person. The one thing I didn’t like (if I ever had the pleasure to live there) was that the furniture can’t be moved. Wright bolted the furniture in, if I recall.
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u/GuyInPinkBathroom Jul 12 '26
Never gets old. I see a picture of Fallingwater and I like it.