Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is stunning to tour, tough to live in [View all]
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is stunning to tour, tough to live in
October 14, 2012 | Comments
By Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press Travel Writer
MILL RUN, Pa. -- Masterpiece. Art. Perfection. Many fancy words and rapturous phrases have described Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous house.
It's all true. But what is also true is that I kept thinking, wow, this house is not childproof. A 2-year-old could tumble out that low, unlocked window and fall to his death! A toddler would drown in that unfenced plunge pool! The railings aren't high enough. The floor is too hard. And that giant open fireplace, what a safety issue. And where is the kitchen, anyway?
Obviously, I'm not the arbiter of architectural masterworks, only a hapless visitor with the pedestrian vision of a suburban housewife.
I do have to say that whoever designed the tour of Fallingwater must have been a man. You see the dining room, but not the kitchen, which is hidden away through a side door with its AGA stove and boring utilitarian uses. It's not part of the regular tour, but in this day and age when chefs are celebrities and people swoon over cooktops, it should be.
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