Fallingwater - Living With and In Art

I am absolutely over-the-moon to be included in this significant and handsome publication on the collections at Fallingwater.

The book, published by Rizolli, is co-edited with an introduction by Fallingwater Director Justin Gunther and Senior Director of Preservation and Collections at Fallingwater Scott W. Perkins; forward by Glenn Adamson; and essays by Donald Albrect, Jeannine Falino, James Oles, Jennifer Way, Charlotte Ashby and Rebecca Hagen. It is lavishly illustrated throughout with beautiful new photography by Dave Bryce.

My time at Fallingwater and the work that I made for the house subsequently hold a very special place in my heart. The week I spent there, completely immersed in the place are so vivid in my memory, and yet at the same time have an almost dream-like quality. You can read much more about my time at Fallingwater from the links here.

One of the lasting legacies of my time at Fallingwater was my Ffenestr blanket. The design references the wonderful casement windows. Here below you see it in Edgar Kaufmann sr.’s bedroom.

I feel quite overwhelmed by the mention in the chapter on the textiles at Fallingwater by Rebecca Hagen, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation collection and archives at Taliesin West. She write of the Ffenestr blanket:

For a week in December 2018, Pritchard gathered inspiration for her textile, “Ffenestr”. Welsh for '“window,” it was a nod to Wright’s maternal heritage as well as his architecture. The throws and cushions produced by Pritchard were inspired by the color palette and geometry of the painted steel window frames in Edgar jr’s study and the large iron-rich stone face of his fireplace mantel. The resulting textile weaves together the historic with the modern-day elements of Fallingwater, and is something that quite possibly would have been selected by Edgar Kaufmann jr. himself.

It is such an honour to be included.

This photo above takes me straight back to Fallingwater, sitting at the kitchen table with my sketchbook drawings, collages and paper-cuts.