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| - I've been a FLW fan since the sixth grade when we went on a field trip to see his home and studio in Oak Park. My father, an architecture school dropout, was thrilled. Someone to share his love of prairie style with. Last summer I read "The Fellowship" and fueled more conversation about the man with my father. "Dad, did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright invented the carport?"
My first apartment was in Oak Park, and I must admit, part of why I lived there instead of in the city was this stupid love affair I have with FLW. It's ridiculous, I know this.
Anyway....today I'm sitting here writing reviews and I see Taliesin West on Yelp and I yell out, "OH MY GOD!!! Taliesin West is here!!! I can't believe I forgot that!" So our plans changed from climbing Camel back to going to TW.
If you're a fan you must go. Because it's Taliesin West. nuf said.
However, I must warn you:
1. Way overpriced. Waaaaaay overpriced. The lowest priced tour is 60 minutes and costs 27.00. No teacher discounts.
2. FLW was always in money trouble and apparently the place is too. I don't know what they do with all that cash they charge their students and tourists but it doesn't go toward cleaning the place. I saw dead flies on window sills, cobwebs in skylights, and some of the carpeting looked original. Original and not well cared for.
3. The living room lighting is crazy. There are some upright lamps in there that look like they were bought at Walmart. Unforgivable. Seriously, you have people studying architecture there, can't you give them an assignment to design some better light fixtures to supplement the original stuff if it's not adequate?
4. OVERPRICED!! I appreciate direct instruction, I do. But in this age if you're going to charge that much for a tour and then use badly reproduced and laminated xerox images in a binder that you walk around in front of your audience as your visual aids I'm just, what? A binder? Seriously?
5. Insufficient parking. We parked in front of what appears to be some offices and maybe living quarters. In front of which were plastic resin chairs and cinder blocks holding up some rocks. This is not beautiful. Do cinder blocks come from the environment? I don't think so.
6. Wilting and dying flowers in the music room at the end of the tour. Better to have no flowers at all.
All that aside, if you are a fan you know that you must see the space and you must walk through it. And since you cannot do so without giving more money than it's worth I just thought you should be warned so that you are not disappointed.
The sculpture garden is beautiful, the water features lovely and the architecture is of course genius. Enjoy!
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