You Can Stay the Night at This Frank Lloyd Wright House! (Louis Penfield House)
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Get an exclusive look inside the Louis Penfield House, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed marvel built for artist Louis Penfield. Discover the innovative design elements and ingenious tricks that make this home stand out.
Location: Willoughby Hills, OH
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Love all his houses, especially the smaller middle class family homes and cottages.Thank you for posting them.
Reminiscent of Tudor close-studding and C17 square panels, nice. 👍
In my day, every home had a telephone table - glad to see that dead space put to practical use; but, since it's a FLW home, such goes without saying...
The chair put me in mind of Macintosh (Glasgow).
Love those floating stairs and and floor to ceiling windows.
Now an AirBnb how cool!
I enjoyed a weekend there and loved finding some of the original owner’s sketchbooks in a drawer.
When I was a high school/college student, I had a thing for getting myself into Wright houses. I grew up in Northeastern Ohio and in due time, I had written to Louis Penfield in Willoughby Hills, who was the owner of the Wright house nearest to my hometown. As it turned out, he was a high school art teacher and had made a habit of bringing his own students over to see the work of art he lived in, so I, too, was invited over to see it. Mr. Penfield also took me to see the Staley House on the shores of Lake Erie while the Staleys were in Florida for the Winter. (Wright homeowners always seemed to know the owners of other nearby Wright homes.)
Classic Frank Lloyd Wright!!! This home is gorgeous!!! 👍👍🙂
I love this house! I love the feeling of the outdoors being drawn inside to give the expansive feel of nature, despite the narrow design of the home. I'm excited that it can actually be rented! Thank-you so much for sharing!
I love Mr. Wright's homes. Always a treat to behold.
My OCD loves this house.
I'm such a huge fan of FLW. I love this house 😍.
My favourite was the open plan kitchen, dining and living spaces, integrated with the outdoors via trims, windows, paving, planter boxes. The illusion was amazing. These homes would all work really well down here in New Zealand 🇳🇿 with our mild climates, the difference is we open our glass walls for 6-9 months a year for that perfect indoor - outdoor flow.
My favorite room was the living room with the floor to ceiling windows~just heartwarming~thank you for sharing this with us❤️
Excellent video. Parts of the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH are 2 FLW homes next door to each other that would make a good video. We also have the home (in Lincoln, MA) of an architect that I do not remember you yet mentioning: Walter Gropius (now a museum).
Thank you for mentioning Currier, I had forgotten it, and now I will make sure I get over and check that out.
I grew up in New Hampshire and I have seen those houses at the Currier Museum in Manchester.
So I love these videos as they help me define what I maybe register subconsciously and when it's called out on a conscious level, it's like seeing things in a totally different way.
That chair!!! 1:43.
That’s very reminiscent of Farnsworth House (Wright would hate to hear anyone say that).
This is a much nicer dwelling.
0.40 I think you meant to say "tricking the mind into the thinking the interior was larger than it was." That is, it appeared larger than it was. It is a contradiction to say that the mind was tricked into thinking that something is larger than it appears, because it is the appearance itself that is the trick. You seem to be saying that the interior appeared larger than it appeared.
Very nice for a small lake house or an island get away.
A friend of mine grew up in a FLW house. It had 3 bedrooms and a den. The rest of the house was very similar to this one. Is all the furniture is built in and cannot be rearranged, it always amazed me that she grew up in a space like that but she assured me that she did.
Thanks!
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This house is a perfect example as to why some refer to the architect as Frank Lloyd Wrong.
Great thanks
In such a small, narrow house, with a family living in it, I wonder where the artist worked on his large pieces and how it affected his family.
Each one of FLW's houses is an exploration into an aesthetic idea, and in general, his results are astonishingly original. I get that his houses are plagued with practical and maintenance problems, though, and I think that the true apex of all impracticality is really the lack of physical security. Designs like this are fragile glasshouses that anyone can break into with practically effortless facility. The house, hidden in the surrounding greenery, lies away from public gaze, and that contributes to make it an ideal mark for thieves and dangerous criminals.
Beautiful. Thank you
Nice layout
I love that open large terrace space. Those upper bedrooms are a bit problematic. They remind me of Wingspread in Racine Wisconsin. That painted brown wood was never going to weather well in Ohio, and those kitchen designs seem form over function. I always wonder about snow accumulation on those flat roofs.
The bedroom with the corner glass view.
Wright is one of my fav architects(not living too far away from the museum in Buffalo) I do prefer victorian with wrap around porches though, there is a sad video posted on youtube about 12 years ago about a wright home just look for frank lloyd wright in gary indiana very sad indeed
So you can get the paintings in, but no place to hang even one.
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The man who restored the house said painting the wood was not an option but there definitely seems to be a lot of white paint on the outside, ceiling, and walls….so what is under that if not wood?
Where did the artist do his painting?
The fact that you are able to rent for vacations
WAIT- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HAD FRIENDS?!? but at the end when the costly repairs was mentioned, I knew it was a wright home.
Interesting FLW house, but far too narrow for my taste. I would find it to be too confining, almost claustrophobic. Thanks for sharing this view of another FLW house!
the kitchen sucks. guess flw never cooked
yeah, but you have to go to ohio to do it
Oil must have been really cheap back then. Looks like a glass radiator designed to get rid of all the heat your oil furnace produces as fast as possible. It might work if you lived in Hawaii at altitude or maybe San Diego, but it is too energy inefficient to build today. I really cannot say I like anything about it because I would never want to spend a whole year living in it. FLW was never a very practical man.
I usually enjoy a classic FLW house, but this one is just plain ugly and does not blend well into the surrounding landscape. Maybe it's the awful colors or the super tightly spaced wooden supports that look like a jumbled mess? I did enjoy the floating staircase and floor to ceiling windows with the continuous grout lines, etc., but the kitchen was strange and not functional and the spaces just seemed too narrow and not practical. That being said, I'd still probably stay the night 😂.
Thanks for posting another Old House video! Good Job as Always! 😊
This isn’t one of his better designs, by a long shot.
Sorry, I do not like Frank's houses at all. When I lived on the east coast, I visited Falling Water twice. For me, I cannot stand the tree house/ cave environment. Low ceilings which I did not find to "open up" to more "breathable " spaces. Also, I am pretty sure the Wanamaker family had some issues that the era didn't cope with- Falling Water is not a place that most people today would find comfortable. BUT, I absolutely love your videos, even when I do not care for the architecture or interior design!
FLW was indeed innovative, but the majority of his work was intellectually and physically constipated and ultimately unlivable.
I try to like FLW but I find his homes about as inviting as a dentist’s office. The more I learn about the man the less I like him. Designing structures that have the warmth and beauty of a computer chip was the least of his sins.
don't care for it
I used to like Wright's designs, but as I've grown more knowledgeable and sophisticated, I no longer think much of them. They come across as heavy, dark, claustrophobic and pedantic. I especially hate how he forces his ideas about living space by incorporating his imperious built-in furniture, which is usually harsh, hard and uncomfortable looking.
I agree. I once greatly liked how work. now, not at all.
Interesting - I disagree. I liked them 30 years ago and still do. But my taste is highly eclectic from MCM to late Victorian gilded age mashups to an honest craftsman or foursquare for what it represented. FLW the man, that's another story.
I gather that Frank Lloyd Wright houses look really cool but they're a pain in the ass to live in and upkeep is incredibly irritating.