
	Where results make sense

Topic: Prairie Style

Related Topics

Stained glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Jonathan Klein

Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria

Kenilworth (novel)

Battle of Shamkor

Antalcidas

Arts and crafts

Judy Holliday

Harrison Ford

Warsaw Ghetto

Potato blight

Soma cube

Arizona Bay

List of United Kingdom prisons

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Prairie style is one of the only purely North American styles.
		Prairie buildings are generally domestic and have a geometric patterning that is immediately evident.
		The shape of the windows, the grouping, and the arrangement of muntin bars on the windows are distinctly Prairie style.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /prairie.htm (699 words)

	Ready Made Prairie Style Dresses
		"5-27" is a Mary style in size 7/8 length is 44 inches in swatch #100 the pinnafore and bonnet are navy.
		"5-68" is a Mary style in size 7/8 length is 43 inches in swatch #95 the pinnafore and bonnet are dark blue sparkly.
		"5-66" is a Laura style in swatch #200 with a maroon pinnafore and bonnet.
	www.geocities.com /lml4/ready.htm (925 words)

	Wright on the Web: Prairie Style
		Through the turn of the century, Wright's distinctively personal style was evolving, and his work in these years foreshadowed his so-called "prairie style," a term deriving from the publication in 1901 of "A Home in a Prairie Town" which he designed for the
		Prairie houses were characterized by low, horizontal lines that were meant to blend with the flat landscape around them.
		His masterpiece of the prairie style is the Robie House, built in Chicago in 1909.
	www.delmars.com /wright/flw2.htm (482 words)

	Prairie Furniture, Prairie Style Furniture & Homes
		The focal point of the room is the fireplace, with brick, tile or perhaps stone surround, ornamented with a Prairie style mantel clock in wood and glass.
		Prairie style lamps follow the prevailing theme of wood and art glass, with horizontal lines and overhangs.
		The Prairie school of architecture and furniture design has greatly influenced all subsequent designs, in that practicality, comfort and spaciousness appear to have permanently replaced the box-like, ornate, fussy designs of previous eras.
	www.furniturestyles.net /american/rustic/prairie.html (758 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frank was fascinated by the blocks and much of his architectural design was influenced by the geometric shapes he experiemented with as a child.
		His Prairie houses are composed of long, extended, horizontal shapes, open interior spaces divided by leaded glass, furniture that was either built-in or designed to fit the architecture and windows organized in bands.
		Wright was given the opportunity to further explore and define his idea for the Prairie Period home when he received the commission for the Dana-Thomas house in 1902.
	www.dana-thomas.org /prairiestyle.html (310 words)

	Remodeling : Styles : Prairie-Style Quiz : Home & Garden Television
		Prairie houses were well suited to the flat, open spaces of the Midwest, and their horizontal compositions helped them blend into the landscape.
		Prairie Style would standardize eight-foot ceilings, pioneer attached garages, and is an architectural ancestor to the split-level rancher of the 1950s.
		Local entrepreneurs believed Prairie Style to be compatible with plans for town expansion and, in 1908, contracted with Frank Lloyd Wright to design several buildings.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/rm_architecture_styles/article/0,1797,HGTV_3664_1396455,00.html (982 words)

	The Prairie Style house, 1900-1920 - Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural revolution - Oldhouseweb.com
		The Prairie Style house is largely credited to Frank Lloyd Wright, one of Americas most innovative and famous architects.
		Unlike the ostentatious Victorian house, the Prairie Style house was conspicuously lacking in ornamentation.
		Not all Prairie Style homes were on the grand scale of the Dana-Thomas House, a 35-room mansion designed by Wright for Illinois socialite Susan Lawrence Dana.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12457.shtml (837 words)

	Prairie Style homes
		In designing the prairie house, Wright sought to "beat the box," to escape the rigidly defined spaces which he claimed were not only false representations of natural beauty but were also detrimental to the American family.
		The prairie house drew on the newer metropolitan notions that home life was not to be intruded upon except by invitation, that it was separate though not totally withdrawn from the rest of the community, and that contact with the outside world should be at the residents' discretion (82).
		Wright himself claimed that the interior of the prairie house held the greatest significance, and the outside "was there, chiefly because of what happened inside (10)." With his "open plan",he sought to "beat the box," to escape the Victorian compartmentalization which he claimed was stifling the American family.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CLASS/am483_95/projects/wright/prayer.html (2078 words)

	REALTOR.com: Distinctive Residential Style
		The acknowledged leader of this style was Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).
		The Prairie house was deliberate and free-flowing, conceived as a practical, cohesive whole right down to the landscaping, built-in furniture, and fixtures, which were treated with as much importance as the architectural elements.
		The Prairie Style house had a strongly horizontal appearance, emphasized by porches, walls, and terraces extending from the main structure.
	realtor.com /Basics/AllAbout/TypesStyles/Articles/Prairie.asp (405 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright Westcott Prairie Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses, churches, and commercial buildings in differing styles, he is probably most associated with the Prairie Style, which dates from approximately 1893 to the First World War.
		To this end Wright's Prairie Style house typically features a large, centrally-placed fireplace, a hearth that "grounds" the house, that becomes its focus.
		Noteworthy to the Prairie Style was the openness of both interior and exterior spaces.
	www.westcotthouse.org /frank/prairie_ovr.htm (1055 words)

	HomeIssues.com - Prairie Style Home
		The Prairie Style home is considered America’s first native born architecture, according to Kevin Moran, A.I.A., who has become an authority on the subject since he and his wife Jenette bought their Prairie home 21 years ago.
		Originally, Prairie design began around 1897 in Chicago with the teachings of Louis Sullivan followed by Frank Lloyd Wright, leading a group of architects, to draft horizontal-line homes suited especially to the Midwest landscape.
		Prairie Style houses were also built in the Park Cities.
	www.homeissues.com /viewarticle.cgi?article=60&category=2 (1279 words)

	Historic Preservation and Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Unlike the previous styles, followers of this movement rejected all historical styles in favor of a modern, functional approach.
		The Prairie Style was used mainly for houses.
		The ideas of Wright and his followers were radical; many possible clients did not accept them and he built only two Prairie Style houses in Indiana.
	www.state.in.us /dnr/historic/prairie.html (156 words)

	Prairie style -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in architecture, American style exemplified by the low-lying “prairie houses” such as Robie House (1908) that were for the most part built in the Midwest between 1900 and 1917 by Frank Lloyd Wright.
		His “Prairie style” became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States.
		The treeless prairie that surrounds the city forms a checkerboard pattern made up of pastures and fields of grain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061184?tocId=9061184 (819 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright .. and Wright Stained Glass Restoration"
		In it, the influence of the Queen Anne style is clearly visible, especially in the diamond-paned windows that are reminiscent of medieval domestic architecture.
		While it took a few more years for the style and its function to meld and mature in Wright's houses, the design vocabulary for the ornamentation of those houses was mature in 1895.
		The most ambitious of his executed Prairie houses, it is today all the more impressive because of its intact state, providing an incomparable experience of the Prairie house as Wright intended it.
	www.jlsloan.com /flw.htm (3290 words)

	Prairie Light Screens by Hudson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The movement became known as the Prairie School, and although Frank Lloyd Wright emerged as its leader, he was only one of about twenty idealistic young architects who rewrote the rules of domestic architecture.
		Windows of Prairie Style art glass, or "Light Screens" as they were called by Wright, largely disappeared from American architecture after about 1925.
		Hudson River Designs makes Prairie Style light screens for existing and new homes, in a wide variety of patterns and colors, scaled to fit doors or windows of any size.
	www.prairielightscreens.com (187 words)

	Prairie Styles - An Online Museum of Prairie Style Architecture
		The Architects, The Artisans, And The Styles Of The Prairie School Of Architecture.
		The ideas and principles of the Prairie School of Architecture evolved out of the inspirational and philosophical teachings of Louis Sullivan and were realized on the drafting boards of the shared drafting room loft of the Steinway Piano Company Building in Chicago, Illinois beginning in the 1890’s.
		Following the lead of Frank Lloyd Wright, were a group of architects and artisans that over the course of the next 25 years worked and shared ideas together that developed into a style of architecture that was unique to America.
	www.prairiestyles.com (129 words)

	Collectors Destination: My Specialty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When speaking of furniture styles, the terms Mission, Arts & Crafts and Prairie tend to be used interchangeably.
		Prairie style furniture on the other hand, cousin to Arts & Crafts and Mission Style furniture was essentially designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for use in his Prairie School homes.
		Scott was among the first few craftsmen to begin rebuilding the style in its modern form.
	www.imakenews.com /col/e_000018080000013911.cfm (734 words)

	Prairie School & Usonian Decorating/Design Resource Page
		Mission style is one of his specialties using red oak hardwood.
		Of special interest to Prairie and Usonian style fans are the pictures on the website of homes designed in these styles.
		The Prairie Planters are inspired by the Chicago School of Architecture, which included Louis H. Sullivan, Marion Mahony Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin, George W. Maher, William G. Purcell, and many others.
	www.aspencarpetdesigns.com /FLW.HTM (3492 words)

	Archpedia - Prairie Style Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The seminal house in this style is generally taken to be Frank Lloyd Wright's Winslow House of 1893-4 and most of the architects in this 'school' worked either with Wright himself or for the employer of Wright's early years, Louis Sullivan.
		In addition, other architects throughout the country were influenced through the dissemination of architectural pattern books.
		Prairie Houses are characterized by low-pitched, usually hipped, roofs with widely overhanging eaves.
	www.archpedia.com /Styles-Prairie-Style.html (156 words)

	SIGNATURE STYLE / Frank Delos Wolfe / Out on the lone Prairies of San Jose / South Bay builder's career spanned many ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wolfe is most noted, however, for his Prairie homes, a modern style developed in Chicago early in the 20th century by Frank Lloyd Wright, George Elmslie and Walter Burley Griffin, among others.
		Prairie homes are common in parts of the Midwest but relatively rare in the Bay Area.
		Among his most distinctive works were Prairie homes, in the style developed in Chicago by Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporaries.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/06/HOGNG3FJ6T1.DTL (1401 words)

	Prairie Style in Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The sterotypical image of the Midwest prairie is that of a wide, flat, horizontal, treeless expanse that meets the horizon.
		Both Prairie and Craftsman/Arts and Crafts (a one- or one-and-a-half-story is a Bungalow) have widely overhanging eaves, but the Prairie style does NOT have exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables
		The style originated in Chicago and landmark examples are concentrated in that city's early 20th-century suburbs, particularly Oak Park and River Forest.
	ah.bfn.org /a/archsty/a-c/prair (552 words)

	Prairie Style Interior - Prairie style decorating
		You are attracted to the clean simple lines of the furniture, the banding of rich wood trim work on the walls and ceilings, the warm tones of the textiles and rugs, the charming interplay of colored glass and clear glass in geometric abstracts in the art glass windows.
		Or the owner of the Chicago or Iowa or other Midwestern Four-Square or small Prairie style house, who wishes to carry a Prairie style interior theme throughout the house.
		Perhaps you are a homeowner who has a brand new Prairie style home and are ready to decorate your white walls and bare rooms with a touch of Craftsman style interiors.
	www.aspencarpetdesigns.com /Decor_1.htm (703 words)

	Sauk Prairie Online Community Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Prairie Du Sac - Well we decided to find out if this was a scam.
		PRAIRIE DU SAC - The evening milking shift at Dennis and Lynette Reuter's farm is a family affair.
		SAUK PRAIRIE - Severe storm warnings were issued June 4 notifying residents that Sauk County was under a tornado watch until 4 a.m.
	www.sauk-prairie.com (132 words)

	Furniture and designs inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, Rennie Mackintosh, and Stickley. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The massive, architectural qualities and clean lines in the Prairie style, and Frank Lloyd Wright's designs in particular, embody to me a powerful elegance and sophisication unmatched in any other style.
		The Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles in his work, combine to produce an artistic and almost magical blend that I thoroughly enjoy studying and love to make.
		And the simple, basic but also tasteful and sophisticated look of the Mission style appeals to me very much as do the philosophical underpinnings associated with Stickley's work (Roycroft and Ellis as well).
	www.prairiespirit.com /prairiestyle.htm (809 words)

	Prairie Style Furniture - The Collections - Swartzendruber Hardwood Creations
		While borrowing from the Arts and Crafts movement, the Prairie School Architects led by Frank Lloyd Wright, were apt to "break the box" and explore new conceptual approaches to home furnishings.
		The strong horizontal lines and overhangs of the Prairie Library Desk or the interplay of light and shadow in the repeating slats of the Prairie Round Chair alleviate the need for flowery ornamentation, and make a striking counterpoint to both period and contemporary interiors.
		Explore and enjoy the many pieces in the Prairie Collection, and see for yourself how we’ve translated classic themes from the turn of the century into modern designs that suit your home and your dreams.
	www.swartzendruber.com /php/collections/prairie/index.php (257 words)

	Prairie Style:Skolnik, Lisa:1586631179:eCampus.com
		Originated and championed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Prairie Style is as fresh today as it was at its inception 100 years ago, as evidenced by some of the finest and most original structures and interiors America has ever known.
		Striking color photographs and illuminating text show to full advantage the sweeping lines, natural materials, precise forms, and integration of building and landscape that are the hallmarks of Prairie Style.
		Knowing the furnishings and accessories integral to their overall aesthetic, built-in architectural details, cabinets lining the walls, window seats, and furniture noted for its rectilinear form, natural wood finish, and art-glass accents (many pieces of which are still manufactured today)--discover for yourself the refined elegance that makes Prairie Style such a favorite around the world.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1586631179 (153 words)

	Antique Reproduction Mortise Door Lock Sets: Art Deco, Prairie, and Eastlake Styles. Polished Brass, Antique Brass, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Prairie" style lock set with white porcelain door knobs.
		"Prairie" style lock set with fluted crystal door knobs.
		"Prairie" style lock set with Waldorf crystal brass door knobs.
	www.houseofantiquehardware.com /re_mor_locksets3.htm (710 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)