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The Alan I W Frank House is a private residence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and partner Marcel Breuer, two of the pioneering masters of 20th-century architecture and design. This spacious, multi-level residence, its furnishings and landscaping were all created by Gropius and Breuer as a 'Total Work of Art.' In size and completeness, it is unrivaled. It was their most important residential commission, and it is virtually the same today as when it was built in 1939–40, original and authentic.
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seventy nine check a few weeks months on it including extra charge george so we can get the condom scrapie architectural anymore justified at this time it that way plan by james how could helping one another and competition threatened and harassed how much presented first maja but hoping mansion sticking out commit grandmama abigail presidents' wives given the right path she complained that the cap i think that in kept habitable army-backed five every room the previous abbotsford i've been in the white house underwriter for august twenty fourth president alberto document have to be almost completely rebuilt the macintosh george caps gets really hot at the white house shelling effective method ph at eighteen twenty politico by benjamin mercado nineteen twenty and the best approx in eighteen twenty nine company nara park pan-american support that child taking couldn't find a way out quite cut spending he couldn't english crab house with an uncomfortable a repair many times there wasn't enough money even minor paint clerk in the world boating with my own public shabby as america crew and the president's responsibilities crew the orchestra's took over more and more of the building can complain that she had no privacy she shouldn't get pissed criminal argument that building adding two large wing to campaign office some entertainment plans would not approve photograph was taken in new eighteen ninety eight prudence program and you were holding the cup to make a significant impairment new year's day with tradition come to the white house startlingly good time with the cleanup effective on president roosevelt sorted out you've got to temporary who directed that area preparing for track the work was done in such a rush severe structural damage was done to prepare in nineteen twenty four hours coolidge repeat the interior and added eighteen rooms to the third floor directly connected at joins every step i've narrowed the punitive damages discontented in nineteen forty law home improvement at the starting with five great investigation restructuring into kuwait needlessly uh... criminal investigators forgetting extending actually orthographic phen-fen democracy to change the white house taken apart field being policed difficult to get the new through the windows and i'm going to stop it if we get the media and the extent to demolish the whole day but the white house separated him go to america fifty exterior walls were retained simple right p fantastico back together the clearing of your trip back in their efforts working fifteen throughout this country except for the balcony topco dot com which president truman abit her uh... the purcell who've been on a lot of the mediscare i want to thank you for letting us visit your official home this is obviously the room from which much of your work on it is directed yes it didn't sell only one info etc dot as we proceed hundreds of letters every day it is really evaluate all of us see if we want to keep the necessity into our budget missus daliberti first lady and every administration since president allison's time has made changes greater or smaller in the white house before we look at a new changes you've made what your basic i really don't how blend because i think discounts will always growing share it it just seemed to be sent to saying we came here can finally anything of the pan hardly anything before nineteen to and then we went to columbia the presidential palace there and only hasty back ten p_m_ in we've seen one believe i'll add every piece of furniture in it effeminate with pat i think the way lamar can you make least changes uh... according to your own personal tastes and desires when l_a_ committee which had museum next day and government people in private citizens on it nine everything we do effective to approval by the finally what your budget words of comfort lately honey norfolk and everything we do it by private donations and every time we find an object we will and we have to go unfair trade down there fake snow an apple a lot of things that we would like to get keep away from it the principles with you when your committee were to acquire some of the things that are in this room what happens when we'd next president white comes into the white house and if they don't want it in the past seetickets throw it out to anything that they wanted family always path next spring which we ask whereby everything that to brought by the white house the competitive pending connection if you can say family doesn't want to get back to the system when it will be taken care of display we'll forgive me this room looks a little bit like m and three dealer's dream that he made any good freinds lately we have since it's rather interesting fifteen oh three things you have that most effeminate belong to the path and this project which left baghdad and getting to the stand intense right here which shows that on that and golf if we like to have mainly an acting furniture in and gravel like staff the cheapest american poverty which is very rare d_n_a_ nineteenth century within each of the machine and if you have in there they are indeed allow we've seen some of the ingredients for the some of the new furnishings in the white house could we see a completed room yet the diplomatic reception in july effect very diplomatic reception room used for besides receiving the phone doing that people think that when they come to the way savvy when it comes to it state in india comes to at least i act and i think it should be a fitting that the way i can uniform room very wallpapers magnificent yet issues will take to get worse printed in france about eighteen three eighty four it don't seem to the mac niagara new york harbor indians west point i think the color of the month there are permitted uh... beginning of the nineteenth century and those most of the rest of the furniture in the room confirm at the same time yet down expecting a little order beautiful winters over there and i'm pretty the rather interesting because they're neck-and-neck developing teacher in this room made in new england about a hundred and sixty years ago missus eisenhower brought out the stupid tune into this one we had at the world speaking of making friends understand that you turn one part of this war in kuwait furniture shop government used to be catching you can get together than it was a broadcasting frank and i think that president clinton music december now we have an appt them if you are not connection restoring the public thinks you do all over europe real paul strain of basil pieces in here leaking nightly much quicker and more practical too exciting to see things grow everyday minella filling this trend ladies and lunch break from the national parks david who cure who count aloud everything tied some of the sermon nothing is like pulldown is repeated and credit macbook everyone can see are a lot of other rooms and thus particular part of white house are there any that we really need to sleep at the time in the government and the live day which is unfinished yet i think the first u_s_ so well but it would be fantastic updated arguments there it's demonstrating jack kindergarten kicking and screaming crafted some ideas seems to me the roots of the intended victim quality sooner wedding leading to the left celebrityhood eastern gradually became social mastermind proclaimed at the grand delighted making truthful large reluctant do it again but because i mean dignitary now because of the crime a lot of money for the cockpit epicurious vice president aircraft feels surrounding president johnson when general grant became president grant unfinished someone call mississippi river take action looked like him he crew theodore roosevelt deterrent with god interim class president appears to have a stake functions might not have a future to exhibition activity here about at continental but there were no major changes president to make and the kind of rebirth of the east room pretty much it is americans have knowledge mouth for sixty years obviously you have felt that you had to make any great changes in it yeah i think it's lovely i hate to make changes really feeling the finder and i think twenty four pretty piano brings to mind but the part of the white house where you have great political affairs that's right fifty and i was designed by franklin roosevelt rethinking conflict for us and at this is the end of the room that has not been found played for a where we had a portable statesville we have the shakespeare plays missus ciller this administration has from a particular affinity or artist musicians writers poets because you and your husband just feel that way or do you think that there's been relationship between the government that they are complicated i don't know think that everything in the white house should be the best with given here it's an american company that you can help i like to do that if it's not just isn't it introductory famous gilbert stuart portrait of george washington that's right that's the only thing that way only thing at least here since the very beginning the government federov interesting precedent in that picture was painted a commissioned the finest living artist of the day to paint the president nikkei but if you get to the white house and often wish they'd find out that purchased young depictions of native president but i really inferiority there is another gilbert stuart portrait of washington in the cabinet heart patients men leave this time here or anything else of great historical interest in this room who gave more effective picture which is rather interesting g_o_p_ independent ahead from life and then the body was painted by people in the back and game which was a common practice in the eighteenth century and then dolly madison the white house then by the british in eighteen fourteen managed to stay here along with the content of furniture and document which has been invaluable to us in our cities i think letters of historical interest and finally the monroe kendall after there is an recovered corporate connect here circuit now almost every room in mister o'rourke has been ripped and laughed and asked he flew down to the white their hand munro who came back in eighteen seventeen had to be finished it people i don't have to pay a dime there on the national now any mistake dining then is perhaps the most famous of all monroe's fantasy calvin klein keep looking for producer the recorder of it leads across the white house to the states are and i'm glad also had foreign affairs matching pictures chicken loaned to it for the white house including the only had to give john bag and that the navy services believe part of a point out that most people think of is the main entrance one on pennsylvania avenue through this door go ahead and this is where the president needs in his living they have referencing flashes ko too picky animators eighty nine community would go to stay here at home enchanted that was in eighteen eighty one and president carter had if we can for the time of central heating and to keep the blacked out chest octave commission glittery kittens to build this elaborate black screen it may have kept the wind out of the white house at the screen kept the main characters doc this is the carter we just that eighteen eighty seven it directly to the state dining the state dining any president often faced attack connectedness men who came from the old friend here or confederate or to america the food is highly victory reprimanded for that i would predict a frightening grade boston common it is the state dining room again and right during the time of benjamin has and his wife caroline may nineteen two renegades they really think that the fact that the great architect stanford white theodore roosevelt stepped on the market around the room a story that president clinton felt just like the stepped head video we created and kept in touch them and if you could not see them on time originally the state dining room without on the fiftieth sixty people check for five believed to be stairway leading to the up staircase scandal we're eliminated nineteen ten the whole area with incorporated into the state dining capacity of the room with more than double the work with some successful but no one had made any data changes in the tram since nineteen ten this paper dining room symbolizes your duties as an official hostess do serve many meals here the f_-fifteens to elvis staked in isn't meant to be given to feed a hundred into people's at the table analysis set up by that name they are there many street corners if they're out enrollment two-month laugh tell me about plea silverware and the china missus kennedy fabric it still cold up in may they used to use monroe's not for many of them have been law after they've been copied and the china is the eisenhower co china he's filming it beautiful old city if the president were destroyed in broken connecticut to mimi eisenhower chinese or the taking notes left up to you and bad it's a beautiful monroe centipede flower for and candelabra and france in eighteen seventy and these classes fair allies i wanted you guys simple design feel that the chinese children contact with show up more and i looked all over in the prettiest went i found came from west virginia well they are beautiful and then this tablecloth it's new it's a gift to the white house from the fairness portent nicole embroidered in gold maps canopy when these pictures there three of them in this room to behind us here yes these two men from the boston museum of fine dot all three pictures in the sand the bike healing if thomas jefferson and the copy act and the news dan you x date the dignity of the debated at the white house forty years and then the most famous one involved fifty to one of abraham lincoln which traditionally always hang in the state dining he with the contemporary linkedin the only fill in one three painters you can see to damage spot really quite badly so we help student apples pictures in the white house need repairs of paint this is a perfectly beautiful room have you changed a great deal now we painted lie different interests because it has the most architecture unity if anyone in the way outfits illegal nineteen to and theodore roosevelt tick-tock great restoration with stanford white and his thing that can mean way the architect so intricate detail if any change sandy and the athlete it interesting people always think theodore roosevelt steph and was in pain few people realize that he was second only two times jack in his care and knowledge about the way in fact he designed to win fame which is making here soon be given to us esta puede manta date at mckinney lighting design was lion's head and theodore accepted no the lines that an american and thirty-two dined at the fact that i don't have to fight mofo and the q meeting right now it's copy not cynthia here to replaced justin promoting expert in nineteen forty eight and this is kind of a comet fireplace just under the map there's an inscription which i've found one of the most moving things in the white house benefits netted ever written it was written by john defaced peasants who live here to recollect at the camp need i wouldn't be here to date november second eighteen hundred i pay heaven to bestow the best of blessings and and paul dips and hereafter inhabit cement that understand why man at the moment in history we strengthen right back to me about that thank you mrs definitely can we take a moment won't talk about some of the pictures which are not yet home respond will need to acquire mcintyre at the white house short time they've accomplished one day collective attention backpack david martin only one affecting ever hanging from life sixty seven escorted her down today dont unincorporated henry ford i think it will copy hanging the red brown draperies wallpaper to hang in the green a mile from clint eighteen fifty four hijacked across given by me to stay active niagara falls environment soliciting opera and you know most influential artists out there at the landscape company or who are i am hooked up who daniel cohen star quality here at five two which will hang family diner canal contacting a great him protectiveness to meet with his hand too beautifullest airline i wouldn't change message to the death varchar chicago and laughed act two marine feeding twelfth i had him marshall field's amount together with three rooms with safety section official functions red gram behind the usual sakta tha kya really lincoln missus lincoln consulted me d and prevailed upon her husband to attend when sonya until recent times decreased the rubric residents receive a contentious fine and bath tonight this is used to be the dining and he checked the stupidest things didn't introduced such exotic macaroni la jolla and ice cream tonight this is gary i know that after a dinner in the state dining room it's customary to withdraw to the revenue tried here twenty-two euthanized and i'd like to show you look at the end to it but before we go to the record we should look at this ph paper empire and too long to joseph bonaparte napoleon gather who came here he had to broaden can you kitty and had lots of these beautiful senator with him do you think it was very important famed french and passed out to mac this is meant to expect all this is the most really of of the rooms as we've seen i can see why they call it the rebel view the fabric kathleen at twelve border go copy coming american empire document anti-communist remnant empire uh... diagrams dictated by the matter of peace if it's one of the only to remaining management in the white house eighteen seventeen after the five or the went before work there and and all the others in the house thirty-fifth nineteen two of forty eight he's he has the same objection colony executed we still in the hall with the peace of napoleon the chips in campaigning fifty diet you think the roman and quot very heavy things but american empire in furniture in modern politics and mister matthews cockpit which of these pieces are historical association they quite a few if you've got a madison so fast atlantic at fifty-seven to its rushing granddaughter the most interesting and a pair of shared by this day not many people know that missus lincoln showed a lot of featured actor had death tissues destitute luck she thought anything to change does change the way the fluidity needed van buren attire one of the ways that we get most of laughing at you back if the people who got things that that those with a gift to me to be beginnings for students my favorite generosity and people exam but make fifty i think the comeback campaign mackey greg i know that all the rooms in the white house have historical associations but this room next to the state dining room must have been used so often a great many things must happen here yet when thing that's interesting president hate with warning here's packages secretly ignite certificate close to selection there meeting with the united states to be without a tragic even today philippines having diminished tormenting trip pictures of are good to that one behind you civil war pictures i've been in the white house lawn now and without the pictures but my committee ticket pictures for the way it's wonderful it had such a stark contrast civil war maneuvers by with with tom it depicts the actual ad with staying both black in october eighteen sixty one i think i feel so strongly at the white house should have it finex section of the mac computers pa so important to setting in which presented to the work find decisions the american people should keep an eye the effective date segregation tummy finance katrina facilitative simpson's it's thailand no union a french cabinet maker who came to america apne people know them he was just toothpaste and confined first great french cabinet makers target being treated phil gramm picture sangeeta i think catastrophes between competing interests and that's what your committee is doing trying to do missouri i think what next along here through the blue room and in the way in mississippi it's laughing at mods composed credit in eighteen twenty-four he came here in a tramp when he wasn't on that the whole country but wild about him that pollen made up became peered at the rental we put it there folded over different feeling on the rhetoric flow that you know addictive president monroe that used to be read if this uh... abrazo monroe's business of his period at the f_t_c_ junaid everything in it clearly if in the time of president monroe fascinating thing is this ph table in fact when we first came here started fifteen bro thing we found that the a table in the cockpit shop but it was being used to distil and we've got nightstick motion grading so we take six weeks to restore and put it back in the men's room downstairs we found that west of washington got a lot in the game but that's it basic defended standby and a sculpture if the interesting thing is pleaded guilty to exactly when they know how which we often mt going what is this room use for misconduct shifted adamant form of in the white house if it's really not used to anything except receiving line tho families need a table and computers which it is more to look at anticipating contributed thinking about when the picture of the few cable came in the paper with catherine bowman to villanova pennsylvania fantastic chair the pc back at night at what they did effete only one of the original at monroe a compelling shane charged frances adam the defendant that'd be awsome practicing you can like committee stability and its copied and now the trend look stupid existed and demeanor forever wonderful big window here at the end here's self-pity even washington monument the interesting thing is the fifth window east if he could do it cameo today or the tajik come just without thinking some people come up the stairs expensive and that was in pain content disciplining okay and over armories grapple here missus kennedy is this way from monroe piece as well yet fifteen in the near the cockpit can't indictment which means i lost a flight from past if this trend safety everything and it really system at home which is nineteen to and the next one inline is uh... if the green what's the period of the through missus kennedy the korean-american potter would've looked like it at the time of athens and jackets aroon dating about eighteen when we came the through the army command ppc expenditure in this have cut a bunch nutri hate changed we decided that we would like and dictate the fat in them but the funny thing about fitness mchenry dupont extended mike establish twenty-two he noticed him right away and pat a_t_p_ only good thing to me when i went to get them team that was the fifteen inches cramming jr what other objects and special interests are in the room now which belong to daniel webster means any one of the finest safety merit it was george washington attorney had it in the executive mansion in and he gave it to a friend and it was bought and i've been in eighteen ninety one and it was a game in town that pin and net terus payment today i appreciate that more than acting between matt damon which is copied and actually it happen country lengthened to the white house you know they have competent that was stay here and be taken care magnificent descargar yes that's a fact creating story to you that was that faced pizza unsolicited find finity when day mrs moore ethan allen from des moines iraq came into the curated phil and asked if we would like to have teams that they will need for like it because it's true pollitt went up to it maryland stocker institute if the baltimore ladies death need only in baltimore africa which ended with inmates taking on the day panel critical painting in class it's really a treasure and i wish there were more people like this is now to get the car to get people to pop up one of my sis things in this room to my untutored eye is that portrayed beautiful young lady over the fireplace unite it's one of the best pictures in the white house ifn jacket and peeler selected seven p_m_ of endurance daughter na she was his house by henry and then if pat buchanan so then be run himself in the picture of the past at the back ticket yet which is another one we found the stamp came to me and on the national again emmanuel hannah book clock in the today lomas it every week now cdn three stateroom but we're going to move upstairs receiver yes at the bank the city welfare the staircase goes up to the second floor which i a north korea reserved for the private living of the president is family i don't think every television cameras motion picture camera never go out there president lincoln's day that's right that did not now in lincoln time stairway three dr through croatia adequate chopped pecans crony icon mystical came down having had a moment with the president here it with the white house fifty packages thank you here's how he changed eighteen sixty one eighteen sixty-three eighteen sixty four eighteen fifty five eighteen sixty one grown men with the arched eyebrow eighteen sixty five for reasons of careers fascination that is going to do spend a great deal of time and we're going to be lead in the beginning if we bring you live refit came here when i read that the other end of the whole looking painted i'm not giving him a friend if any side of the house and then you jack magnolia trees it right outside the window that's a nice work it was a bedroom during whitman's time now that would linking cabinet for them if president truman scholar of american history which ended in jewish trying to lincoln it at the lake infinitive it's been all over the house and put it in the field are all the pieces from a confirm idea i think i had the most famous joined of course if the lincoln bedroom every president seem to love it theodore roosevelt sentiment sorry calvin coolidge it's probably the most famous peace agreement in the white house it would go up and they can lincoln along with the drafting bureaus and sharing his table and she put a lot of things to do this straight ahead for you by the croats t_-thirty spent too much money if it came forward all ten of twenty fifty eight zero two bath she worked in mckinney dwight tell them to be showing staying the furniture and arrested two bedroom ifn there is this paper it's quite a terrible thing about or carbon yes it is fantastic victorian carving but on the table if the gettysburg address this is probably the greatest treasure in lieu because it's one of only five copies straightened zone located considerably with nothing and north early next week on israeli confine the emancipation proclamation omkar unknown on that day that death within the subject we used to go excited for summer retreat in washington to telegraph and the to change were brought here through the efforts of president truman they were selling that lincoln fail i was telling you about missus lincoln sound and they went to england and then true descendants of the man who brought to bear hasn't really gotten back all sorts of detected worker gone into finding these pieces and identifying them i know these teachings then it's definite that we found one at fort washington which is the story so back into a large extent in coming out though what it looked at the lincoln period so we drank at home and we found communicating that atlantis and then added at the earliest melody lack of arlington benefit exact pair ministers britain cullen canoe jadi standards in victorian green and yellow marched down fifth and it was just enough to cover the to change and here they are linking jane addressing bureau with the mayor part of the original lincoln furniture because it's a marvelously mascot the establishment of the things that we can to make it almost everything in its roommate except that may react which reported that eighteen seventy and pack i think it's been a love for that last week now at that went it was in the blue m of the monroe petain mckinley works for a picture of andrew tracks doing in the lincoln leafy linking loved andrew jackson and command elgin greatly found that would meet with his cabinet graham he had that picture hanging in there then we found that out because the picture which was downstairs and put it in same place that he had it and the ticket andrea football star bought me time and jack linking you think his cabinet change there only four left now at the pet because his cabinet grim kikuchi scheme with this was his cabinet room this kind of a world is off hit jupiter's nextel in his day you could walk through to it without coming up because the who was always crowded with office daily plate morning was a moment f_b_i_ director kapil buildings in nineteen ten missus garvey i've often heard this room referred to a billion monroe how did you get that night it just came to be called fitfully lincoln dot conjunctive cabinet grad and meet with you to the next day missus who had three people dead monroe defendants a copy in the nineteen twenties the coroner's office if you know if the inscription on this matter p to take this room with refuse to meetings of the cabinet during the administration of president john and continued to be so used to be in nineteen to he the treaty of peace with ec because the cabinet for him johnson cathedral wrote about johnson that there was bad luck essentially a confusing linking cabinet ran after the fascination in anything so he moved the cabinet in here teacher miss julia chamber of high right now and i think it would be interesting to use the waiting room is like really starting to do it because practically along the furniture in the tram we found in storage so that if they work cried disbelief unemployed at home let me finish any security how attractive it will be at princeton we'd ordered by president grant at three fifteen april and schtick grant cabinet a book they could draw up every member of the cabinet he was lucky to have to take turkey with him before the next meeting what about the chair i mean the chairs around the cabinet today said that born chance for true which were in the way indifferent run and denoting grading we found that they were also year distracted hate diamond chain we put them here if you get to this thread friend admits it will have gotten it southwest prescribed to life julia grant c_k_ picked him up express clock on this issue isn't just an fyi it's feeling that they keep electric lincoln in the dining and you recognize that we are going to be recognized in the picture statement etc which is broken in pieces you can see but going to put in the record it's eighteen katie and the jack shouldn't be appear now but keeping them well the classic kind an arm or where uh... i see your cargo wallpapers right options document over wall paper that was like in the white house from time to get in the last but we find it in the book from the white house at that border paper in the room when lincoln died across conflicted everything here has been that way the thing that we can he do that can be interesting if tony pgp done the archive acting to give it copycat and we can defend ted that you can really disinfection hysterically or you're going to use a four hundred orphanage they do you think getting them should have a k it can still be hitting them and that's out there that you may not believe it will look nice that it would save the date dummy meeting f_d_a_ or the men who wait to denounce it now the baby catches going by then connection sitting here in paper waiting well worker murmur answers and a few minutes action he campaigns to him japan's pagecont every peace has story watched each when it became i mean if we found out when it went bonuses uh... uh... missus kennedy has been showing us about the white house all the changes that she's made there and what do you think well i think we have a deficit you've made it into uh... bring as much more intimately in contact with all the penalty they have to roll up history is that people have been particularly in great moments of our history of presidents so when we have this we do today drenched table lincoln's bed eroded gold sent only seven make these men much more life so i think it makes the playhouse a stronger panorama really a blog great story do you mind living in a house the president many visitors of the swim gross like you we had to largest industry which i could use of the white house is that becoming more and more importantly american people one million to the end of the house and people pass through our but uh... i'd like to see that number double-digit and what is particularly interesting is that these two thirds of them with young boys and girls at school i've always felt that the american history is that sometimes a dulce objective so much emphasis on dates but i think they can come here and see you allied this building the deep sense of touch the people who've been here and they'll go home more interested in i think that uh... they've become better americans some of the main water submitted himself which i think would be a unit zero but certainly not a great deal from the city do you living here as you do have the same widely sense of passed in the first reader those of us who does it this house too yes i think even more because uh... perrin dejected wing which we did visit which if the roosevelt designed not to do the best which was given by queen victoria and the president he light many of our president and the whole atmosphere touches them the lines of these men who will lead our nation very difficult times course i think anyone who comes to the white house is a president uh... desires the best first country but i think he does a reciever stimulus the knowledge of living in close proximity to the people who will a legendary but uh... actually were alive you heard about it history can be helpful to understanding the present yes a history of the guide to the president the archives building down pennsylvania avenue the day stone a plaque which is what is past is prologue while it doesn't give us a key to the future i think it does uh... give us a sense of confidence in the future this country has passed through very difficult day but it has a pass through them and he is a rather interesting to realize that there were other no republican with the old republic in the world and when we were founded there was a year king frances are in russia and it would be keen all that's been wiped away in yet who's going to continue makes us feel that the will continue in the future and that we represent a long f building on the live in the end of the efforts of the men who were here end of the american people in the past so i consider that he's going to be a sources artistry to be a source of strength to us here in the white house and will the american people and anything which dramatizes the great story of the united states is i think the white house doesn't is worthy of the closest attention and respect by americans who lived here and visit here and who are policy citizenry and that's why i'm glad that they have jackie is making it the cheese making other first ladies have done it and i know that those who come after us will continue to try to make this week really over a sense of american historical life thank you mister president and thank you mrs kennedy for joining us this wonderful how often would you live and all of a wonderful thing but your bring to it
The House
With four levels of living space and an indoor swimming pool, the main building encloses 12,000 square feet, complete with curved glass facade, nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Including the five terraces that are part of the house and the rooftop dance floor, the floor plan totals 17,000 square feet. The stonework of the exterior walls and the dramatic entry of this innovative house suggest a detailed and richly textured building. Inside, graceful curves prevail throughout with paneled walls of warm pearwood, English sycamore, and redwood, or of travertine or stone.[1]
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Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA wrote in Hauser magazine, "The home’s three-story window wall swells in the facade next to the circular stair, which sweeps visitors from the ground floor entry and recreational area to the first-floor living area and then continues to rise to the next level. The stair is a sensuously curved cantilevered stair - the first embodiment of all the cantilevered stairs of independent slab risers that Breuer would make a signature of his American work. The theme is echoed in a sculptural outside stair of concrete taking visitors from the front to the back garden via an open terrace, an alternative dramatic path through the house. Perception of the house includes both theatricality of approach and intimacy of scale. Effects are achieved through natural materials set in contrast with man-made products, through ratios of light and heavy, closed and open, and through dramatic lighting and staging of movement on the wooded sloping site."[1]
Unique features of this home include roof surfaces that support living lawns and contribute to thermal efficiency, innovative electrical and energy management systems that reduce energy use, and one of the first examples of central air conditioning with electrostatic air purification.[1]
Architectural significance
In addition to being the largest residence designed by Gropius and Breuer, the Frank House was also the largest project of any kind that Gropius would undertake between the completion of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau, Germany in the mid-1920s and the commission for graduate housing granted him after World War II by Harvard. As for Breuer, he would have to wait until 1953, with the design of UNESCO headquarters in Paris,[1] for another architectural commission of such scale.[1] The 17,000-square-foot house is one of the “most important modernist houses in this country” relates Bergdoll.[2]
The Frank House has been described as a unique synthesis between the modernism of the interwar years and the sumptuous ethos of Breuer's so-called New Humanism.[3] As Bergdoll writes in Hauser, "Unlike the Meisterhäuser at Dessau, where a machined aesthetic of stucco rendered walls and floating boxes defined a rigorous geometric approach to composition, the Frank House uses gently swelling curves set in facades of long horizontal lines, exterior walls of warm pink-sand colored Kasota stone over a steel framework, all set upon a rugged base of local field stone, echoed in the garden’s terrace walls."[1]
Contemporary critics saw the Frank House as a prime example of a change in direction in the development of modernism. “In its use of random ashlar, stone veneer, travertine and natural wood is indicated a new interest in natural materials. Also worth noting is the disintegration of the rectangle into freer shapes, as in the stairway, garden walls and entrance vestibule. If in so important an example such drastic modifications are to be seen, there is a new and impressive evidence that contemporary architecture is entering a new phase, richer, more assured, and more human.” [4]
This trend was borne out in every detail of the house and its furnishings because the project was commissioned as a ‘Total Work of Art’ whose design included furnishings, fabrics and landscape as well as the home itself. “It’s the biggest house they did, and the only house for which they designed every piece of furniture“ describes Bergdoll.[2] The Frank House was Gropius's first such commission since the Sommerfeld House [2] in Berlin. It is also the most intact such work, as the Sommerfeld House was destroyed in World War II.[1]
Gropius, Breuer and the Franks envisioned the home's design as skillfully integrating all the requisite disciplines — structure, materials, furnishings and landscape. The commitment to a Total Work of Art gave Breuer responsibility for designing all the furniture and furnishings in the house, from major pieces to details such as door hardware, lighting, light switches and a whole range of novel devices. It would be the single most important commission of his American career for inventing new furniture. Two thirds of the designs Breuer would create during his American years were created for the Frank House and exist nowhere else. Hundreds of new designs were developed, using new ways of shaping and finishing wood and new materials such as DuPont's Lucite polymer, a revolutionary new material at the time.[1]
History
The Frank House took shape in 1939-40 as the grand family home of Cecelia and Robert Frank, the third generation of Pittsburgh industrialists in his family, who had founded and was building a new company, Copperweld Steel. An engineer and inventor, Robert Frank was open to new ideas, including modern architecture. As his family grew, Robert and his wife Cecelia started planning a new home.[3]
Cecelia and Robert considered Walter Gropius, who had recently come to the United States and become head of Harvard's Department of Architecture, to be the world's leading architect. When Gropius came to Pittsburgh to give a talk, Robert attended. Interested in what the new architecture could achieve and its potential to realize their ideals — Cecelia, Robert and their young son Alan met with the architect at his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and visited Gropius’ home in Lincoln. Long letters followed the meetings, and a collaboration was formed.
Robert Frank contributed significantly to the project as an engaged architectural client. His and Cecelia's correspondence with the architects runs to hundreds of pages. During design and construction, suggestions, instructions and queries sometimes filled three eight-page, single-spaced typewritten letters a week.
Gropius and Breuer came to Pittsburgh many times during the project, first to look at various pieces of land that were for sale, and then repeatedly throughout construction. Cecelia and Robert contracted with a leading national construction company to do the building, and arranged for Pittsburgh architect Dahlen Ritchey,[4] who had been a promising student of Gropius at Harvard, to supervise the construction.
The project was completed in 1940. It became, as one scholar describes it, “a machine for living,” especially for healthy, comfortable living. Its sunlit rooms, outdoor terraces and indoor pool provided a warm and friendly environment in which to raise a young family. In addition to its advanced architecture and furnishings, the home incorporated an integral system for cleaning air, an innovative internal phone and light signal system, built-in projection equipment to turn the recreation room into a movie theater, lightning rod systems made of Robert Frank's Copperweld, and a heating and cooling system that used the water from the indoor swimming pool for thermal management and energy conservation.[5]
In 1941 the home was profiled in Architectural Forum. Photos were taken of the home and furnishings by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller.[4] In the decades that followed, the home fulfilled its promise as an environment designed for family life, and Cecelia's active involvement with the Pittsburgh arts and education communities made the home a well-known site for cultural and social events.
The Frank House today
The Frank family has owned and occupied the home continuously since it was completed. The family's dedication to preserving the work of Gropius and Breuer has kept the original features and furnishings intact, making the home a valuable example of a unique turning point in the timeline of modern architecture.
Seventy years after its first review, the home is still recognized by architectural scholars as a significant milestone in the history of modernism. Scholars and critics who have visited the site are unanimous in their understanding of its importance as a masterpiece that must be preserved. John Carter Brown III, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, described the house as “the nation’s crown jewel.” Toshiko Mori, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, said the experience of visiting is “one of those rare occasions when you enter a house and it’s absolutely authentic. Mr. Frank preserved the house in its totality — equipment, furniture, fixtures, even original textiles and wall coverings. It’s all intact. It’s a very exquisite balance of architectural proportions, textures and colorations with machine-age aesthetics. Everything is very functional.” Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator, MoMA Department of Architecture and Design, who is using the house and its trove of correspondence as part of an extended study of Marcel Breuer, described the Frank House as “an exceptional historical document, as well as a major monument of American architectural art and architectural history.”[5]
Robert and Cecelia's son, Alan I W Frank, has established the Alan I W Frank House Foundation as a 501(c)(3) public charity to preserve the home.[6] The Foundation's development plan includes the acquisition and restoration of the land and buildings, initial operating expenses, and an endowment for ongoing operation of the home as a museum.[7] In June 2011, restoration work began on the home's exterior and roof.[8]
In June 2013, the Alan I W Frank House Foundation announced the return of four pieces of the original Marcel Breuer furniture to the Foundation for preservation and future exhibition. The desk, desk chair, armchair and table were created by Breuer for the Frank House in 1940. They were designed in wood, Lucite and natural upholstery, and some were made by American manufacturer Schmieg & Kotzian. For the last eight years, they have been on exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art through the efforts of former director Richard Armstrong, and the support of the Hillman Foundation. They are four of the hundreds of pieces of furniture that Breuer designed for the home.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Bergdoll, Barry. “Neue Weg In Der Neuen Welt” (“New Ways in the New World”). Hauser: Architecture, Design, Art, Gardens, January 2009: 84-93.
- ^ a b Shaw, Kurt. “Frank House in Shadyside a modernist masterpiece.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 10, 2016: F1, F4
- ^ Frampton, Kenneth, ed. “Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer: Alan I W Frank House, 1939.” American Masterworks: houses of the 20th and 21st centuries. New York: Rizzoli International, 1995
- ^ a b “Frank Residence, Pittsburgh, PA...,” Architectural Forum, March 1941: 160-170.
- ^ Frank House Pittsburgh Quarterly
- ^ The Frank House
- ^ Frank House Pittsburgh Quarterly
- ^ Frank House, Post Gazette
Sources
- Shaw, Kurt. “Shadyside home an architectural gem.” Greensburg Tribune-Review, June 26, 2005.[6]
- Pitz, Marylynne. “Architecturally significant Frank House a museum.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 2006. [7]
- Blake, Peter. Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949: 74-75.
- Giedion, S. Walter Gropius: Work and Teamwork. New York, Reinhold, 1954: 187.
- Berdini, Paolo. Walter Gropius: Works and Projects. Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., 1994: 176-177.
- Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1997: 408.
- Bergdoll, Barry. "Hidden Masterpiece." Modern, Fall 2012: 138-143
External links
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- Official website
- Alan Frank House Foundation Formed
- A Bauhaus Masterpiece
- Pittsburgh’s Frank House, Restored and Preserved
- Frank House in Shadyside a modernist masterpiece.[8]
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