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| Frank Lloyd Wright’s Circular Sun House, also known as the Norman Lykes House, was the last home design he worked on before he died in 1959. |
Photo by Craig
Root
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
PHOENIX, AZ -- Sixty
years after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Circular Sun House, also known as
the Norman Lykes House, was the last home design he worked on before he died in
1959, according to
TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
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| John Rattenbury |
Built in 1967 and
later restored in 1994 by his apprentice John Rattenbury, the
3,095-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath contemporary house is located in
Phoenix on 1.3 acres on the edge of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve.
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| Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor |
It will go to auction on October 16 with no
reserve. Wright designed over 1,000 structures during his 73-year career
including many of America’s most famous buildings such as Fallingwater, the
Guggenheim Museum and the Johnson Wax Headquarters.
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| Emma Stone |
Wright had been
working with Mr. Rattenbury on the Lykes House sketches and had chosen the
building site and designed the furniture and built-ins for the home when he
became ill and died at age 91.
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| Michael Phelps |
Having come full
circle from his start in Prairie style, to textile block, to organic and,
towards the end, the functional Usonian for the masses, his last designs showed
a new interest in circles and curves as he created buildings in the round such
as the Guggenheim in New York City and a home he built for his son, the David
and Gladys Wright home, also in Phoenix.
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| Alicia Keys |
Registered with the
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, the home includes Wright’s signature
large living room fireplace intended to bring families and friends together, a
lower-level media room, two home offices with built-ins of desk, cabinet
storage and walls of shelving, and a distinctive curved kitchen with the best
appliances of the day.
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| Alice Cooper |
Wright designed rolling-island and unique
under-cabinet windows and timeless stainless-steel counters, contemporary-tiled
large baths, and a privacy-walled crescent pool with mother-of-pearl tiles and
patio viewed from inside through glass walls.
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| Steven Spielberg |
There is also a
separate upstairs round office with all built-in furnishings in Philippine
mahogany, as are all the home’s built-ins, and is encircled by half-moon
windows.
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David and Gladys Wright house in Phoenix, AZ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his son and daughter-in-law
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Views of the city,
valley and mountains can be seen from almost every room and if the Phoenix
Lights return, the Lykes House will have a commanding view.
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| Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain |
Conveying in the sale
will be the added bonus of Wright’s mid-century modern furniture including
small stools, table, night stands and end tables.
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Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin
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Phoenix and its
Paradise Valley have been a home for the rich and famous in all walks of life
including retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, actress Emma
Stone who grew up there, history’s most-decorated Olympian, Michael
Phelps, singer Alicia Keys who just bought the Razor House in La
Jolla, California, musician Alice Cooper and filmmaker Steven
Spielberg.
The auction will be
held at the property by auctioneers Heritage Auctions.
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