CHARNLEY PERSKY HOUSE DAMAGED BY STORM / FLOODING

CHARNLEY PERSKY HOUSE DAMAGED BY STORM / FLOODING: HELP NEEDED

Charnley-Persky House experienced serious flooding on Tuesday afternoon. Water poured in through the sink and toilet of the second-floor powder room, on the north side of the house. The water flooded the room and traveled down through the ceiling and walls to the living room library on the first floor and continued on to the basement.

 

SAH staff tried to mitigate the flooding.  Once the flow of water stopped, staff members vacuumed up water from a storage room in the north side of the basement and the flooded powder room. Water had rushed down along the eastern wall of the library, onto Sullivan’s ornately carved fireplace surround and enclosed bookcases. The original white oak woodwork and wood floors were dried with rags and towels, but a portion of the ceiling, saturated with water, collapsed from the weight.

Plumbing professionals are on-site and found a blockage in a drainage pipe, which was likely the source of the backflow. SAH is assessing the damage and working with professionals to make repairs. Restoration architect John Eifler is advising SAH as it works to restore the damaged ceiling and walls of the house.  Professionals will help dry out the walls and ceiling before plaster and painting restoration can be undertaken.

HELP NEEDED

Cynthnia and Ben Weese have given SAH a $10,000 Challenge Grant for repairs and restoration of CPH. So, every dollar donated up to $10,000 will be matched from the grant.

PLEASE CONSIDER DOWNLOADING THE ATTACHED FORM AND MAKING A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESTORATION.

SAH Chicago Chapter will provide periodic updates, including an estimate for restoration as the information is available.

FIND THE FORM HERE

Thinking Into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas

The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and the University of Chicago present the inaugural Thinking into the Future lecture series by architect Stanley Tigerman.

Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 6 to 7 pm cocktail reception. 7 pm lecture.
Location:
Glen A. Lloyd Auditorium
University of Chicago Law School
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago
$30 for FLWPT members and U of C alumni
$35 for non-members

Stanley Tigerman, FAIA is principal of Tigerman McCurry Architects along with his wife, Margaret McCurry. He received both his architectural degrees from Yale University.

A Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago for twenty-one years, he also served as Director of the School of Architecture for eight years. Founder of the Chicago Architectural Club as well as Co-founder and (former) Director of ARCHEWORKS, a socially oriented design laboratory, Tigerman remains the "architectural voice and conscience" of Chicago as a commentator on, and critic of, his city's architecture, fighting to save historic buildings, criticizing bad architecture, condemning public inertia and working with community activists and the local AIA to achieve affordable housing, among other goals. The author of six previous books on architecture, Tigerman has two books being released this fall: Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition (Yale University Press) is a collection of his previously unpublished papers on Chicago architecture, architectural theory, and commentary on contemporaries; Designing Bridges to Burn (Oro editions) is a memoir of his career.

Thinking into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas will engage leading international, national and Chicago voices in architecture, design and contemporary culture that point the direction to a bright and promising future for the next generation. This partnership program with the University of Chicago will begin with a lecture event in 2011 and include an architecture walk in 2012.

The annual program will take place during September each year. As the program evolves and grows, it will add film screenings, student workshops, and a Robie House award for high school students inspired to envision their future in a summer fellowship program at Robie House and on the campus of the University of Chicago.

Designed in 1908, the Robie House is Frank Lloyd Wright’s most innovative Prairie style home, considered one of the ten most important architectural works of the 20th century.

Taking Wright’s future-thinking philosophy as expressed in the house, the program will explore current ideas and issues in architecture, design and society that stimulate debate about the global world of the 21st century from a neighborhood to a national perspective. The imperative to consider the natural environment, spiritual values, intellectual freedom, social change, design philosophy and architectural ideas will be the focus of this new partnership program.

More information here.

"Reading Wright" at Madlener 11/19

“Reading Wright” Lecture by

Lloyd Natof at Madlener House

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
5:30 Reception
6:00 – 7:00 Lecture followed by Q & A

Location: Madlener House – Graham Foundation

4 West Burton Place Chicago, IL

A joint program of

The American Society of Interior Designers Illinois Chapter

&

The Society of Architectural Historians Chicago Chapter

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More than Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings, his furniture is problematic for designers - many of the pieces make sense within the context of the buildings they were designed for but individually they can be almost too idiomatic. We know instantly that they are by Wright but it is difficult to see through their very distinctive shapes to the underlying design principles.

Reading Wright organizes and provides commentary on the various compositional effects present in the furniture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

S. Lloyd Natof is a studio furniture artist in Chicago and has been living with and looking at Wright's furniture all of his life. For more information on Mr. Natof’s studio and his own work go to

www.slnatof.com

About Madlener House
A masterpiece of early 20th century residential architecture, Madlener House was built in 1901–02 and is the work of architect Richard E. Schmidt and designer Hugh M. G. Garden. In 1905 Architectural Record, called the house "exceptional" in its interior design. After a century, Madlener House stands out as an unusually successful amalgamation of tradition and innovation in architecture, a harmonious reflection of its time and place. In its compact, cubic massing the house is related to the German neoclassical work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and his followers in Berlin, but in many of its details it clearly reveals the influence of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Download and print a description of this program with public transportation, parking, etc.

This program is underwritten by Perfection Custom Closets

FREE for Members of SAHCC Members & ASIDIL Members. $10 for Guests
Space is Limited. Reserve Early.SAH Chicago Chapter Members RSVP to sahchicago@gmail.com or Keith at 708-358-1394

PAST CHAPTER EVENTS

MEMBERS AT CLIFF DWELLERS FOR SHOW AND TELL

ART MILLER - LAKE FOREST COLLEGE DONNELLEY ARCHIVE DIRECTOR AT

SHOW & TELL - CLIFF DWELLERS SPOKE ON NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHS OF DANIEL BURNHAM

MARK SMITH, JACK & GILLIAN SCHULTZ OF METRONET INTEGRATED (OUR SPONSORS) AT THE LOUIS SULLIVAN FILM AT GANZ HALL

ART IN ARCHITECTURE AT THE CHICAGO SPIRE SALES OFFICE

Left to Right: SAHChicago Treasurer Bill Locke, Our Spire Host, Sven Asmus,

New SAHChicago Board Member Thomas Leahy

DIALOGUES ON DESIGN: MICHAEL FITZSIMMONS GALLERY IN OAK PARK

LASALLE PERU; HEGELER CARUS SITES, HOTEL KASKASKIA AND I & M CANAL

SAH Chapter Board Member and Pullman Curator Linda Bullen gets an autograph by "Gospel of Buddha" author Paul Carus descendant Blouke

L to R: Blouke Carus, President Hegeler Carus Foundation and Carus Chemicals, Marianne Carus, Founder Cricket Magazine, Keith Bringe SAH Chapter Co-Pres.

APRIL 2008
John Holabird film and talk at AIA Chicago

The group enjoyed a reception and fellowship in AIA's beautiful new offices at 35 East Wacker.

Bill Locke with John Holabird.

Left to Right: Furniture maker Lloyd Natof, Whitecap Films' Mark Richard Smith who is producing a feature length documentary on Louis Sullivan, AIA Vice President Zurich Esposito and Chicago Art Deco Society President Joe Loundy.

The view from AIA Chicago's office.

MARCH 2008

Charnley House Roundtable: David Bahlman of Landmarks Illinois

David's talk drew a full house and included an overview of his remarkable career - from serving as Director of SAH National (in Philly) to San Francisco Library murals to LPCI's stellar accomplishments at Farnsworth House and more plus where he's going - to an impeccably restored 18th century house in Conneticut. The Chicago Chapter honored Bahlman with a resolution and a plaque. A little praise for Ceasar - and all with the bust of Seymour looking on... We really will miss you, DB.

February 2008

Jordan Mozer: Studio and Associates

XXX = Fun!!!

June, 2007

A tour of Geneva Lake included a champagne reception at the Driehaus Estate

July, 2007

An "insider's tour" of the Fine Arts Building

including a reception in the hidden "Venetian Court"

August, 2007
Members toured the University of Illinois at Chicago in a dual-subject event; Walter Netsch design and the World's Columbian Exposition Collection at Henry Hall.

Dialogues on Design at Lloyd Natof's Studio

January 16th, 2008