as "forward-thinking in how you should operate a public site." It’s one of the many opportunities at Fallingwater that allow you to experience the architecture as it was intended. Thanks to his foresight, today I get to enjoy brunch on the Fallingwater terrace and see what Gunther means when he described Kaufmann, Jr. It was designed as a retreat from the city, and you can both see and hear nature’s influence from every room in the house. "Nature is the artwork of Fallingwater," as Gunther puts it.
Boulders jut into the home, and even the ochre palette is derived from rhododendrons in the landscape. "Kaufmann saw someone like himself: a force of nature, a strong business person with a strong personality." Ahead of their time, the Kaufmanns would commission some of the greatest architecture in the world (nearly a decade after Fallingwater, the couple tapped Richard Neutra to design the famed Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California).īefore you even glimpse the residence, you hear it-the sound of, well, falling water. "They were brave to go with Wright," says Gunther.
Tastemakers and trendsetters, Edgar and Liliane wanted something unique. They were department store tycoons, the Kaufmanns, who would commission Wright for this weekend home near the Bear Run stream in 1935.
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