The object of one’s affections is always a product of its past and its background and of many other butions. So it is with a house. Although there is no doubt about the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright, others participated to make it visible. The architect Marion Lucy Mahony, employed by Wright, in her three typed manuscripts of the The Magic of America, that she had been in charge of interior , which also included windows. In her drawing of the Tomek house, one bedroom window is Surely, Emily and Fred Tomek had had a say in the matter and they later added pillars under that huge cantilever so that it would be anchored down and resemble their cozy front porch of their low (now demolished) at 1147 South Ridgway Avenue in Berwyn. I had those unnecessary pillars
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