Gnomadic » Scottsdale http://www.gnomadic.org The travels of Willard the gnome Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:29:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Taliesin West http://www.gnomadic.org/2009/07/12/taliesin-west/ http://www.gnomadic.org/2009/07/12/taliesin-west/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:36:36 +0000 Willard http://www.gnomadic.org/?p=166 Greetings from Arizona! We had a splendid relaxing drive back from Washington, though we didn’t take many pictures along the return trip.

My traveling companion lives just outside of Phoenix, so he thought he would show me around town a bit, starting with the winter home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale.

reflective pool

It was designed to fit into the landscape, like most of his buildings. The design was inspired by the local landscape and intended as a “camp”.

garden path

When this camp was first built, the nearest “neighbor” was on the north side of Camelback Mountain.

Camelback Mountain

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