Frank Lloyd Wright?s final home goes to auction
Photos by Craig Root, Craig Root Imagining
The house first hit the market in 2016 for $3.6M The circular Norman Lykes Home, Frank Lloyd Wright?s final residential design, is headed to auction with no reserve. After being on and off the market since 2016 with an original list price of $3,600,000 and most recently listed at $2,985,000, the home will be auctioned on October 16 by Heritage Auctions.
Designed just before Wright?s death in 1959 for Norman and Aimee Lykes, the 3,095-square-foot home was ultimately built in 1967 by apprentice John Rattenbury.
The home is an excellent example of the architect?s late-career style?exemplified by the Guggenheim and David and Gladys Wright home?and is most notable for its curving set of concentric circles. Located on a desert plateau in Phoenix?s Palm Canyon, the home looks like a set of intricate clock gears from above. Wright was inspired by the curves and forms of the surrounding mountains, and the home boasts 180-degree-views of the landscape. The interior features curved walls clad in golden hued Philippine mahogany, circular and semi-circular windows and other geometric cutouts, custom built-ins, and original Wright-designed furniture.
In 1994, Rattenbury updated the interiors, which originally had five bedrooms?some as small as closets?and now has three bedrooms and three bathrooms with a larger master suite. (All changes were approved by Taliesin West.) The house also includes a crescent-shaped pool, which helps mit...
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