Wright-designed house restored in GR

A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located in Grand Rapids has undergone an extensive renovation. The intricate project required the expertise of a local woodworker and a historic building contractor.

According to excerpts from the story:

No part of the interior has been more ambitiously reclaimed than the kitchen, which retains Wright’s geometric aesthetic while accommodating contemporary flow patterns and state-of-the-art appliances. A project of Grand Rapids furniture and cabinet maker Cameron Van Dyke, the renovated and expanded kitchen was inventively engineered by Grand River Builders.

Elsewhere, the kitchen’s design repeats features seen in the rest of the house and in other well-known buildings by Wright. The steel-blue ceramic tiles lining the backsplashes reproduce tiles cladding the living room’s fireplace surround. Leaded-glass casement windows repeat original windows in other rooms.

Read the story here.