"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."
Curator Amelia Peck on Frank Lloyd Wright's modern living room at The Met.
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Edward MacDowell: Four Little Poems, Op. 32 performed by Phillip Sear
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this pavilion as a living room and small concert space
"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."
Amelia Peck
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Amelia Peck
Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Supervising Curator, Antonio Ratti Textile Center
Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Supervising Curator, Antonio Ratti Textile Center
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
1912–14