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Furniture was an essential part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy and upbringing as a designer, even though most people know him as the creator of organic architecture. His most famous work, the Fallingwater house, sits atop a small waterfall in Pennsylvania, deep into the Laurel Highlands. Frank Lincoln Wright was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Both of his parents were teachers, but his fathe …

Knoll is a big name in furniture, and we don’t necessarily mean Florence. The name itself represents the big conglomerate that she helped found, but that sometimes contributed to her overshadowing. Florence Schust, however, was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1917. She married and took the last name of industrialist Hans Knoll in 1946, but by that time she already had a very interesting reputa …

One of the best-known decorating clichés is that lighting is everything. It is what makes or breaks a room, as it makes colors look different and accentuates certain parts while keeping others in the shadow. This is completely true, but it isn’t as ominous as people make it sound. All you have to do to make your lights work around the house is keep in mind that there are three differ …

We recently wrote a series of articles on the three different types of lighting, and we invite you to check them out. On those pieces we talked about a lot of stuff, primarily how to light a certain room and which types of light fixtures to use. We used a couple of terms that most people might not be familiar with, so we want to try and clarify that today. There are lots of lamps and light fixtur …