WHAT WE'RE HEARING: So long, Frank Lloyd Wright

The Guardian

Europe could soon welcome its first Frank Lloyd Wright designed home. Bachman Wilson House, designed by Wright in 1954 and located in New Jersey, has been put on the market fully restored by its architect owners. However, the house is for sale at a guide price of $950,000 on one condition – that the buyer moves it somewhere else. According to last week, the owners have already got a prospective buyer – an Italian architect who wants to dismantle the house and take it to Fiesole, a hilltop town near Florence, where Frank Lloyd Wright once lived. Should the move take place, the house which is currently located in an area of high flood risk and frequently necessitates subsequent repairs, would become not only the first house designed by Wright in the continent, but it would become one of the first buildings exported in this direction across the Atlantic. As The Guardian article explains, famously the London Bridge now stands in Lake Havasu City, Arizona and a Tudor mansion from Lancashire in Richmond, Virginia. For a less difficult way to purchase a modern house, visit: The Modern House

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