The car is architecture : a visual history of Frank Lloyd Wright's 85 cars and one motorcycle / Richie Herink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herink, Richie, author.

Contributor:

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Automobiles.

Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Motorcycles.

Pickup trucks.

Advertising--Automobiles.

Advertising.

Advertising, Magazine.

Physical Description:

viii, 101 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Martinsville, IN : Fideli Publishing Inc., [2015]

Summary:

"This historic publication brings to light the little known fact that the automobile was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's passions and that buying cars was one of his obsessions. Wright, through his Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, owned more cars and more different makes and models of cars than any other architect that ever lived. Wright purchased cars even when he was financially strapped and he often bought several cars at once. Nearly all of his cars were painted Cherokee red, regardless of their original factory color. ... Wright, thereby, turned his cars into Frank Lloyd Wright cars, irrespective of their make and model. ... Because photos of only a few of his cars are available, historic magazine ads that depict, in their illustrations, the year, make and model of each of his cars are used to describe them, thereby providing, in effect, a history of these cars as told via the automobile manufacturers' own magazine advertising."--Preface, page vii.

Contents:

The Wright cars: an overview

Getting the Wright cars right

A visual history of the Wright cars: year acquired / model year

Appendix. Final inventory of Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation cars

Wright's car-related projects.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781604148435

1604148438

OCLC:

905969286