Frank Lloyd Wright House

The Bachman-Wilson House is an example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s classic  architecture. This house was built for Gloria and Abraham Wilson in 1956 along the Millstone River in New Jersey. It was subsequently purchased by architect/designer team Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino in 1988 and meticulously restored. When the house was threatened by repeated floods, the Tarantinos determined that, in order to preserve it, they had to relocate it. Alice Walton acquired the house in 2013. The entire structure was then taken apart and each component was labeled, packed, and moved to the Crystal Bridges Museum, in Bentonville Arkansas where it was reconstructed in 2015.

The living room has a built-in banquette facing a wooded scene through a wall of 10 foot high glass panes. The public space is a dramatic focal point, with walls of glass and an open floor plan. Cut-out wooden panels of abstracted forms over 24 clerestory  windows provide a decorative touch to this  space. These recall Native American geometric motifs as well as stylized forms based in nature.