Gliding through Sunset Terrace leads to the tranquil serenity of the Garden Room; a space wrapped in warm wood and soft textiles, inviting quiet reflection. The variation of natural textures shaped into geometry is on full display.
Adjacent to the Garden Room is the Dining Cove, once a breakfast room for the Wrights, and a private dining room for the family. Eventually it evolved into a sitting room. The 8 panel screen on the wall is from the 19th century: “Hundred Flower Offerings for Longevity”. All the faces of the characters are sculpted in detailed porcelain.
Here at the Tower Pool, we get a closer encounter with Wright’s approach to organic architecture. Stone, brick, concrete, and wood are all exposed and celebrated in their raw form as desert masonry. The large stones of quartzite used for the walls were found on-site. The masons built the walls section by section with concrete, gravel, and rock-poured forms.
At this point you are fully immersed and accepting of this way of being in the desert.