Taliesin Celebrates 100 Decades
In 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney”eloped” into Europe. In Europe, Wright assembled the Wasmuth portfolio (arguably the most influential set of architectural drawings of its time), and Cheney analyzed the writings of Swedish feminist Ellen Key. The Europe trip was scandalous (Cheney was wed to one of Wright’s Oak Park clients, and Wright was also married), prompting Chicago newspapers and preachers to railing against the couple’s immorality. Therefore it was from the question to come back to their…