Fallingwater, commissioned in 1934 as a vacation home by department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr., would be Wright’s opportunity “to beat the internationalists at their own game,” as he ...

It was originally a private home for Pittsburgh department store owner, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., and his family. It’s one of ...

One day early in 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright and Edgar J. Kaufmann took a hike in the woods just outside Pittsburgh. The businessman had just commissioned Wright to design the top-floor offices of ...

more information at driehausmuseum.org The Edgar Kaufmann residence known as Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, as photographed by Hedrich-Blessing, Photographed by Bill Hedrich in Dec. 1937 ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House (also known as the Edgar J Kaufmann Sr Residence), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1970s. A house designed by famed architect, Frank Lloyd Wright sits on ...

Edgar Hoover Building (1975), which serves as headquarters ... and drawings of three built projects—Fallingwater, a private office for Kaufmann, Sr., and Kentuck Knob (a Usonian house for the Hagan ...

Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., for whom Wright designed the iconic Fallingwater, introduced him to the city in 1934 and advocated for the architect’s involvement in a number of public projects.

They were major philanthropists. They were the creation, not of anonymous corporate logarithms, but of actual visionaries — John Wanamaker, Edgar Kaufmann, Harry Gordon Selfridge and above all ...

For example, Eyerman discovered exact matches between details on an unbuilt garage for Edgar Kaufmann (who commissioned Fallingwater) and the Guggenheim, so could easily look to the latter for ...