Archinect - News 2024-11-23T04:03:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/75804669/remembering-frank-lloyd-wright-s-bijou Remembering Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bijou Archinect 2013-06-24T15:32:00-04:00 >2013-07-01T18:23:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b9/b9f2de8bab76f8512ecfd68ce1a3ebff?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Wright&rsquo;s bijou, as he described it, was the architect&rsquo;s first permanent work in the city, his first constructed automotive design, and one of his few interior-only projects. Realized during New York&rsquo;s post-World War II commercial construction boom, it was the architect&rsquo;s single gesture along the corporate corridor of International Style buildings designed by his rivals, the &ldquo;glass box boys.&rdquo; The showroom&rsquo;s signature ramp was also one of Wright&rsquo;s several design experiments with the spiral...</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>