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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780977895106
ISBN: 0977895106
Label: Meridian Press
Manufacturer: Meridian Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Meridian Press
Studio: Meridian Press
Sales Rank: 1818920
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During the Great Depression, there were few clients coming to Frank Lloyd Wright for designs, so he turned to writing and lecturing. In 1932, he and his wife, Olgivanna, began the Taliesin Fellowship where 30 apprentices came to live and learn from the most influential and imaginative architect of the Twentieth Century. Earl Nisbet was one of those apprentices and Taliesin Reflections relates some of the day-to-day activities that occurred in the Taliesin Fellowship.
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Reading Earl Nisbet's books is as close as I can get to really understanding what the experience was like working and living with Frank Lloyd Wright. I have read all of the apprentice's published accounts and I found Earl's book to be the best of them all, as well as the most enlightening.
The reason this book had such an impact on me was because Earl shares all of the intimate details of his life before, during and after his experiences as a member of the Taliesin Fellowship. By doing ... Read More
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Like another review, from Richard Blois, this review is not unbiased as I live in the house that Nisbet designed for Blois, referred to as the Blois House, in the book.
Earl Nisbet has a reverence for Mr and Mrs Wright, as he calls them, that intensifies the longer he stays at Taliesin and then is carried through into his architecture. It is a very personal book, about the struggles and triumphs of the Taliesin training, the rigors of the business of architecture and the pleasures of companionship. ... Read More
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By David M. Kinchen
Huntington News Network Book Critic
Hinton, WV - In the 1940s and 1950s, any man or woman dreaming of a career in architecture considered being an apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship run by Frank Lloyd Wright the ultimate achievement - at least for those who were admirers of the Wisconsin-born Wright (1867-1959).
Born in San Jose, CA in 1926 - he turned 80 this past July - Earl Nisbet was a California dreamer, seeing himself as a Taliesin Fellow in the original ... Read More
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Taliesin Reflections is more than a recounting of Earl Nisbet's experiences with Frank Lloyd Wright. It's an autobiography of his life and is written in a style not unlike Wright's autobiography. It's not a narrative, but instead is a journal with interesting observations and stories throughout. As a Wright fan, I enjoyed reading about the stories related to Taliesin of course, but also found myself reading the entire book with an interest in his stories of travels and experiences in Tahiti, Hawaii, China, Japan, Egypt, ... Read More
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This is not an impartial review of Earl's book. We both attended San Mateo High School back in the 1940's. At that time Earl's talents as a designer and craftsman were already evident in the form of what today would be called "street rods". Three of his cars are pictured in the early portion of his biography (dealing with the time before his living with Mr. Wright). They were indeed objects of beauty and greatly admired by everyone, including, as he notes, Merv Griffin, also a San Mateo High student at the time. After graduation ... Read More
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