Frank Lloyd Wright Saguaro Forms Notecard Folio

$9.95

This elegant folio presents adaptations of one of Wright's Liberty drawings. Dangerously avant-garde in 1927, still fresh and surprising today, Saguaro Forms exemplifies Wright's understanding of the organic beauty inherent in pure geometric forms. Ten 5 x 7" full-color blank note cards (5 each of 2 designs) and ten white envelopes. ISBN: 0-7649-3700-6.

The American Institute of Architects has called him "the greatest American architect of all time." Frank Lloyd Wright might have quibbled over the "American" qualifier; certainly his ambition was to be the greatest anywhere, of any time. Quite arguably, he was. A man with a mind of extraordinary scope, Wright (1867-1959) was closely attentive to the small but significant details of design. He created innovative abstract images in windows and furnishings at a time when overwrought floral motifs were the decorative norm. This gravitation toward the cool geometry of modernism led Wright to an informed appreciation of avant-garde graphic art that was coming to the fore in the early twentieth century--largely in European publications. In 1926, Wright offered Liberty magazine a year's worth of semi-abstract cover designs. Liberty never quite accepted nor rejected the proposal. Wright cut his losses and got his presentation drawings back. They became the basis of later, fruitfully executed designs in diverse media.