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Reader copy. EX library paperback covered in plastic, usual stamps/markings. Covers little worn & page edges little grubby otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 38A*
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Very good in Good jacket. 148 pages. Honeycomb illustrated endpaper. Illustrations. Appendix I: Furnishing Our Home. Appendix II: Outdoors. Bibliographic Note. Photographic Sources. Oversized volume, measuring 10-14 inches by 9-1 inches. DJ has some wear to top and bottom edges. The honeycomb Hanna house is a milestone in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, and one of the acknowledged masterworks of twentieth-century architecture. The Hannas themselves tell, simply and in lively detail, how they came to commission Wright, how they received his ingenious yet provocative design--based on a hexagonal pattern like the bees' honeycomb--and how they brought it to completion. The Hanna-Honeycomb House, also known as simply the Hanna House, located on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wright's first work in the Bay Area and his first work with non-rectangular structures. The house is recognized as a National Historic Landmark. Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wright's innovative hexagonal design. Patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the 3, 570 square foot house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings. In American National Bibliography Frederick Ivor-Campbell wrote "(the) Honeycomb House showed how Wright's system of Polygonal modules could provide the openness that he associated with freedom of movement while gracefully integrating the house with its sloping topography. The hexagonal modules of the floor plan gave the appearance of a honeycomb; hence the name of the house." There are no right angles on the floor plan. The Hanna-Honeycomb house was designed for Paul R. Hanna and his wife Jean, both well-known educators and for many years associated with Stanford University. The project was begun while they were a young married couple and the house was expanded and adapted over time, with Wright's assistance, as their professional and personal needs changed. The construction process was not without difficulty. Wright's initial plans called for flat terrain, but the lot the Hannas purchased was hilly. Cost overruns meant that the original $15, 000 price tag ballooned to over $37, 000 ($658, 035 adjusted for inflation). The house is one-story high with a central clerestory (an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows) and is constructed of native redwood board[5] and batten, San Jose brick, concrete and plate glass. The house clings to and completes the hillside on which it was built as the floor and courtyard levels conform to the slope of this one and one-half acre site. The entire site includes the main house, a guesthouse, hobby shop, storage building, double carport, breezeway, and garden house with pools and water cascade. After living in the house for 38 years, the Hannas gave the property to Stanford University in 1974.
