Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House stained glass, art glass, and light screens

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390 Traditional Stained Glass Designs
This 80 page paperback features beautiful and varied patterns rendered directly from historic homes. The patterns are organized into five sections: Art Nouveau, Victorian Geometric, Victorian Floral, Edwardian and The Twenties.

There are patterns for all tastes and all skill levels, most of which lend themselves more properly to lead came than copper foil.
Mosaics: Prairie Art Glass Patterns
This 27 page plastic comb bound book is full size mosaic patterns designed for 8" x 8" and 16" x 16" standard molds. The designs are taken from windows and lamps designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades
This 128 page paperback offers complete designs and instructions for making 18 authentic Mission lighting fixtures: chandeliers, reading lamps, droplights, desk lamps, dome fixtures, more. Complete, easy-to-follow instructions with measurements, illustrated with over 75 working drawings, diagrams and figures. No elaborate tools required. Minimal outlay for materials and equipment.

Darwin Martin House
Buffalo, NY - 1903-1905

The Martin House is actually part of a complex of buildings that also includes the Barton House and four other structures. Frank Lloyd Wright designed 394 pieces of art glass for the Martin Complex using 15 basic designs, 11 of which were for the Martin House itself. Each of the house's two floors have a different basic pattern for the window designs, and there are separate patterns for exterior and interior windows as well as for ceiling panels (geometric designs based on squares).

The "Tree of Life" design used on the second floor was dense enough to provide some privacy, with each consisting of over 700 individual pieces of glass separated by various widths of brass caming. The "Wisteria" pattern, which is much more open, is the main pattern for the first floor. Wright never referred to these designs by any name and, although they are commonly used, they are unofficial.

You can find more information and photographs of many more examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's glass art on the main page, along with recommendations for excellent books on the subject.

Dining Room Window
Window (from outside)
Pair installed at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
"Wisteria" Window
"Wisteria" Window
Tree of Life window on display at the Corning Museum of Glass
Tree of Life light screen in the Corning Museum of Glass collection
Entry Ceiling Light
End panel, living room skylight
Bursar's office window
End panel, Bursar's office skylight
Pier cluster
lay-light
Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House
This 248 page hardcover is a detailed account of the Martin House commission is which the author mines the Wright-Martin correspondence, along with the physical artifacts and architectural remains of the house (which was under restoration when the book was written), to investigate Wright's often-made claim that his buildings "portray" their clients. The author presents an account of one of Wright's greatest works of "architecture as portraiture" that lends new insight into the ambitions and working methods of this much-studied architect.