{"id":1000,"date":"2009-07-08T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2009-07-08T07:02:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:02:48","slug":"architecture-for-sale-wright-vs-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Architecture for Sale (Wright vs. Johnson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ennis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ennis.jpg\" alt=\"ennis\" title=\"ennis\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/farney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/farney.jpg\" alt=\"farney\" title=\"farney\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left, Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Ennis House (1924) in the Hollywood Hills, on the market for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manolith.com\/2009\/06\/19\/frank-lloyd-wrights-ennis-house-for-sale\/\">$15 million<\/a>. On the right, Philip Johnson&#8217;s Farney House (1946) in Sagaponack, on the market for <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptons.curbed.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/06\/afternoon_delight_philip_johnsons_earlier_glass_house.php\">$35 million<\/a>. The Ennis is one of the glories of Wright&#8217;s textile block period. The Farney, which has been expanded considerably, was in its original form an elegant beach house perched on the Hamptons dunes. One doesn&#8217;t generally associate Johnson with modesty, and the $35 million pricetag certainly isn&#8217;t, but this was a simple structure, really just a pair of cedar-sided wings connected via a living room and an open breezeway. Wright and Johnson had a stormy relationship marked by mutual necessity, professional jealousy, and a sense of admiration that was largely uni-directional.        Wright is justly more celebrated. Johnson, however, had his moments. Given the choice (and the extra $20 million) I&#8217;d rather live in the Farney. Of course, I&#8217;m a New Yorker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the left, Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Ennis House (1924) in the Hollywood Hills, on the market for $15 million. On the right, Philip Johnson&#8217;s Farney House (1946) in Sagaponack, on the market for $35 million. The Ennis is one of the glories of Wright&#8217;s textile block period. The Farney, which has been expanded considerably, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Architecture for Sale (Wright vs. Johnson)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}