One “hands-on” restoration project provided the answer to a question we still had after obtaining orking drawings on loan from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at Taliesin. Was there a safety box eping of documents or jewels. The wall-to-wall stairway carpeting was removed, the work cleaned and stained anew, and metal rods were bought to own the new stair carpet. Then I made another low-budget r, embedding the Wright logo, the little red square in the riser peated on the upstairs hall rug, and it was this woodwork restoration on the upper that we found a safety box in one of the risers original plan had indicated. But alas, there othing in the box and we put it back behind er.
first step. A little red square is also is a feature in my old quilt made with strips of fabric depicting the logs in a log the red square in the middle signifying the hearth where e gathered for sustenance and warmth. I hung this beautiful made item at the end of the grand staircase: Did Wright take ed square logo from the Amish or Japan? I wondered if he ever sign a house without a fireplace. Wright believed the hearth to heart of the home. The house had had an intercom system, as s bells, and in the upstairs hall an indicator ned to tell the maid whether it was someone room 1 or bedroom 2 who needed her, the nursery not rating a designation. There also een a button under the dining room table to
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