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Dream Living

those are his barrel chairs around the dining room table.
And his surprisingly comfortable taliesin chairs in the front of the fire.
their design was apparently influenced by Mr. Wright's appreciation of Origami, the Japanese art form of folded paper.
In her restoration, Linda upgraded the home to include details Mr.
Wright had specified, but the original owners couldn't afford.
In fact, Linda oversaw much of the work herself, starting with the floor.
this is copper tile from India.
It took months to get it in, and when it finally came in, it was all in huge crates, and I had a tire tool thing, a crowbar, and I used to get out there and break open, and it was like finding a treasure with every crate that I got into, because they're all so individual; none of them are alike.

Some of them, for instance, this one has a real coppery hue to it, where this one doesn't.
this is speckled over here, and this is...
I literally hand washed and selected every one of these.
I had a huge brush, and I washed them down and selected them and brought them all in and put them around.
And uh, these things are pretty heavy, they, one day I found out they weigh anywhere from fifteen to nineteen pounds each.
And you were just hauling them all out...