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In The Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941

Presenting a superb architectural title in the iconic 'cubist' jacket

signed (in pen) by the master himself, 'Frank Lloyd Wright' on the half title page-

w/ a '1965' affixed 2c 'FLW' (in front of the Guggenheim Museum) postage stamp in urc on the ffep-

Provenance: the Library of Hugh Mercer Jr of Savannah Ga,

whose ancestral residence, the Gen. Mercer house,

was featured in the film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

and himself a distinguished architect who collaborated w/ Philip Johnson et al.

Also included in a mylar sheath:

a brochure from the Imperial Hotel Tokyo (designed by 'FLW')/

a 'halved' ticket stub & newspaper clippings for a 'FLW' lecture

given in 1951 at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Architecture-

Together, this is a classic design biblio offering for the 'Wright' connoisseur, indeed!-

Now archivally housed in a custom Japanese terracotta Asahi silk clamshell slipcase-


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