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Article: A prairie home interior: Steelcase's restoration of the Meyer S. May house in Grand Rapids illuminates the American master architect's skill as an interior designer.
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- Interior Design
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- November 1, 1987
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APrairie Home Interior
While the Venderbilts were building French Gothic chateaux on Fifth Avenue and baronial piles by the sea in Newport, Frank Lloyd Wright was developing a native American architecture with the Prairie houses he designed in cities of the northern Midwest. Reacting to what he considered gauche stylistic hodgepodges that had little to do with American culture, and perhaps even less to do with the people who lived in them, Wright sought a residential architecture embodying shelter, privacy and the unity of the family itself--all wrapped in a modern aesthetic package and anchored solidly to the earth.
Though many of the hundreds of houses ...