Norman Lykes Home Arizona, Modern Phoenix Residence, US House, Building

Norman Lykes Home by Frank Lloyd Wright

Modern Phoenix House, Arizona, USA – design by Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

15 Jan 2016

Norman Lykes Home For Sale

Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Final Home For Sale

Date built: 1959-67

The final home that Frank Lloyd Wright designed has just gone on sale.

image : Wikimedia Commons

This curvaceous 20th Century Arizona residence is a good example of the architect’s late-career style, exemplified by the David and Gladys Wright home, reports curbed.com.

The asking price is $3.6 million, and includes the original furniture.

photo (c) Mark Hertzberg, flickr creative commons ; Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy

A series of concentric circles set on a desert plateau, the home, which looks like a set of intricate clock gears from above. The organic design contextually references the mountainous landscape.

The home was designed for Norman and Aimee Lykes in 1959, but only completed in 1967.

photo : Rich Glasgow, flickr creative commons

The property has a strong view of Palm Canyon and all the bedrooms face the valley.

It was the last sketch he would finish before passing away in April 1959; his apprentice John Rattenbury, with whom he consulted with before he passed away, finished the design and oversaw construction of the home on the original site, completing in 1967.

photo : Kayla Nossaman, flickr creative commons

The interior was revised for a previous owner by Rattenbury in 1994: alterations included an enlarged master bedroom and home theatre converted from the workshop.

Home area: 2800 square foot

Address: Norman Lykes House, North 6836 36th Street, Phoenix, AZ

Coordinates: 33°32’19″N ; 112°0’10″W

Frank Lloyd Wright

Website: Norman Lykes Home Article

Website: Norman Lykes Home Location Plan – aerial view with curtilage delineated

Another Frank Lloyd Wright house in the US on e-architect:

The David Wright House by Frank Lloyd Wright

The David S. Wright Home, Arcadia, Arizona, USA

photo from FLBC

The property will be transferred to an Arizona not-for-profit organization responsible for the restoration, maintenance and operation of the David Wright House. The change in ownership guarantees that the house will survive and be preserved. We expect city Landmark designation to follow shortly but there is no longer a demolition threat. We will also pursue long-term protections for the house.”

American Modern Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

Martin House Complex, Buffalo, USA

photo : Biff Henrich / courtesy MHRC
Martin House Complex in Buffalo

Zimmerman House, Manchester, New Hampshire, New England

picture © Adrian Welch
Zimmerman House

Houses of Sagaponac, Long Island, New York
Bachman Wilson House, NJ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

photo from Brown Harris Stevens
Houses of Sagaponac

Location: Norman Lykes House, North 6836 36th Street, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Famous American Modern Houses

Farnsworth House, USA
Mies van der Rohe, architect
Farnsworth House

Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Philip Johnson, architect
Philip Johnson Glass House – various news updates

Miller House, Columbus, Indiana, USA
Eero Saarinen, architect
Modern House : Eero Saarinen design

Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition, New York, USA
A Long-Awaited Tribute : Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House and Pavilion
Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibitionat the Guggenheim New York

The American Institute of Architects designated seventeen Frank Lloyd Wright buildings to be retained

Frank Lloyd Wright Residence
William H. Winslow House
Ward W. Willets House
Unity Church
Frederick C. Robie House
Hollyhock House
Taliesin III
Fallingwater
Honeycomb House
S. C. Johnson Administration Building
Taliesin West
S. C. Johnson Research Tower
Unitarian Church
V. C. Morris Gift Shop
Price Company Tower
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright assistant – Rudolf Schindler:
Oak Park studio: 1918-20
worked on projects such as Imperial Hotel
Los Angeles studio: 1920-31
worked on projects such as Hollyhock House for Aline Barnsdall