Frank Lloyd Wright.
So Frank Lloyd Wright actually ended up designing some skyscrapers.
And Frank Lloyd Wright wrote back and said, yes, I'll design your house.
comes from Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School aesthetic and the Japanese cultural influence that that has, as well as being neighbors to a great cocktail
And then we use Frank Lloyd Wright's signature red box, which he put in his blueprints as his sort of sign-off.
And the Frank Lloyd Wright's estate said, you can use it as long as you take this one line out of the intro, which was-- the dog hated the doghouse,
And the Frank Lloyd Wright estate said, you've got to take that out, because we don't-- It reflects badly on Frank Lloyd Wright.
He actually invited Frank Lloyd Wright to come in and talk to the animators about how to draw a better Bambi.
And after listening to Frank Lloyd Wright come in and give them ideas about what he went through to create a new building, they did that.
Like so many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, it fell down in the 1960s.
wrote that story of Frank Lloyd Wright?
really done that much to except maybe "Frank Lloyd Wright-ify" it?
So I'm a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright.
And so you know who Frank Lloyd Wright is-- an American architect whose major work is around the 1920s and 1930s.
In case you don't know Frank Lloyd Wright, you probably are quite aware of some of his work.
And so I went to see this Frank Lloyd Wright house, having blagged my way in.
A little kid wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright and said, can you build a house for my dog?
If any of you have been to Frank Lloyd Wright houses or places like that, this is a pretty funny picture, because it looks just like one of them.
actually really quite early on in Frank Lloyd Wright's life.
terrazzo floor that was modeled after the Frank Lloyd Wright one in New York City and I said well you know the they
And the idea is really sort of looking at how Frank Lloyd Wright architecture sort of used a lot of those different elements.
But the original Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Not a good engineer, Frank Lloyd Wright.
So it's an official Lego set that is same as Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic building.
It comes with a big clear cube that is stenciled with our sort of Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired-- Actually, this is our logo at Prairie School.
I was sort of stretching here, but Frank Lloyd Wright c structures all over the world.
But the one place in the building that still has the original Frank Lloyd Wright appointments is the old bar.
So with respect to the Tall Boxes, the origin of that name was that Frank Lloyd Wright, 100 years ago, was describing skyscrapers with what he called "tall boxes."
And oh, by the way, I do have a Frank Lloyd Wright book that's out at the moment, if you want to.
So you can go to the old Imperial Bar in the hotel, and it has beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright wall hangings and the tiles and stuff.
Because I wanted to feel the connection to history, to a Frank Lloyd Wright building and to the history of cocktails.
novel before this, which deals with the entire life and career of Frank Lloyd Wright, primarily though, as seen through the point of view of his four women in his life: his mistress
But sometimes, as with the details of this or with the Frank Lloyd Wright book, the historical details, I love the history so much.
There've been over 1006 books written about Frank Lloyd Wright.
So I mentioned, of course, the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright in opening Prairie School.
And the thing that's most, I think, exciting for me is that I grew up kitty-cornered to a Frank Lloyd Wright house in River Forest
But we've sort of refined it and made it more simple and elemental, which is something I think that Frank Lloyd Wright did.
But the idea was bringing in the concept of Prairie School and bringing Frank Lloyd Wright in,
So obviously, a drink that has sort of a rum punch would make sense to have a sort of Frank Lloyd Wright-y sort
Not all of our drinks, by the way, are named after Frank Lloyd Wright.
And basically, when I was in LA once, I pretended to be a multibillionaire and walked up to a Frank Lloyd Wright house,
Well, this isn't really the same thing, but there's a Frank Lloyd Wright letter, the architect.
And that's a thing that alcohol will give you, is that connection down through shallow time, with Frank Lloyd Wright and then deeper with the people who
exercises, which were basically mathematical in nature, they are the people who went on to found modern art-- people like Klee, Paul Klee and Kandinsky and Frank Lloyd
So I organized hearings, and I had Michael Graves, who was a very famous architect at the time, we had the Frank Lloyd Wright estate, we had
What's so interesting, as you say, is that Frank Lloyd Wright was not there that day because he was doing the
So Miriam, in real life, and in my telling, came to Frank Lloyd Wright