Frank Lloyd Wright's Contribution to the Beauty of American Life
November 1955 issue (Vol. 98, No. 11) of House Beautiful

Hardcover | Page Size inches | 384 pages | English | 50¢ (cover price)

Publisher's Description:
House Beautiful is devoting this entire issue to Frank Lloyd Wright. He has created a new beauty in architecture and a new idea of beauty for our time. He continues to inspire a whole world with his freedom, as he has for 60 years. He has achieved the immortality of influence and universal recognition, and continues to amaze even his admirers with the freshness of his latest work. And now he has designed a whole ensemble of home furnishings, which are being introduced this fall in stores across the country.dDAB Commentary: The other day I was writing something that referenced Frank Lloyd Wright's famous phrase that "the hearth is the psychological center of the home." This sentiment is attributed to him but always without a source, so I tried to quickly find where he wrote it. With Google failing me I dove into some of my books on Wright, first his autobiography, which was like finding a needle in a haystack of index-free prose, then this special edition of House Beautiful from November 1955. Digging through the hefty, advertisement-packed issue of "the magazine dedicated to the business of better living," I lost track of finding the phrase and ended up reading some of the articles, for the first time since happening acr...