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Article: Full-time job: it's no easy task restoring the executive quarters at Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Oklahoma.
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- Interior Design
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- July 1, 2003
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THE INN AT PRICE TOWER has certainly put Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on the cultural-tourism map. "The only place in the world to book a stay in a hotel designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright," promotional material promises. Ironically, though, very few of Wright's 1956 finishes survived on the eight floors that Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture recently reconfigured as hotel rooms.
Not so the top three floors of the tower, once the domain of oil baron Harold C. Price. His private penthouse office and corporate duplex have remained largely intact--a state of affairs falling somewhere between remarkable and miraculous.
Office interiors, for all the attention ...