d several new rugs after parting with tterned oriental carpets. I ended up ing runners and carpets for several houses, including the Coonley House e Coonley Playhouse by Wright, and the lous Bradley House by Purcell & Elsmlie ods Hole, Massachusetts which, like t’s Robie House in Chicago, is another ng of the Tomek House of 1904. For the Tomek hallway I designed an ce rug that would look appropriate in was incorporated in the new floor coverings. A local store lined and bound some of the rugs, but I lacked the y, skills, and time to “go into production” or to market this arger scale. I was merely wanting to give this house the er dress,” so it would be fitting and would show my love. A loved one enjoys giving to the other a beautiful sweater he right size), some favorite flowers, or a scent, a book, or tems that demonstrate one really knows that person. In my was the recipient of many gifts through the many years of in the house: a superb quality sketch pad, special ates, a pair of silver fish-shaped earrings, Orrefors wine s, many books, a splendid drawing of a “Villa Maya” home by an admirer (now in the collection of the Art Institute of go), a huge bouquet of white Casa Blanca lilies, sets of that Wright had designed for the Imperial Hotel in Japan, a se filled with Freezias, a tape made up of old French and an songs that a friend and I sang during our teenage years,
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