But why? The motive remains a mystery to this day. But there are so many other questions. Why does seemingly everyone know Frank Lloyd Wright but strangely, very few seem to know this much darker side of his story? Happy Halloween! Mike Wallace: Good evening, what you are about to witness is an unrehearsed, uncensored interview.
My name is Mike Wallace; the [cigarette? Tonight we go after the story of one of the most extraordinary men of our time. You see him behind me. He is 88 year old Frank Lloyd Wright, perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century and in the opinion of some, America's foremost social rebel. Frank Lloyd Wright: I feel enlarged.
I feel enlarged and encouraged, intensified, more powerful. Because why? Because in the one instance you're inspired by nature, in the other instance you're inspired by an artificiality contrary to nature. Am I clear? Wallace: You are clear, although I must say that I don't agree because whatever inspires Wright: We do historically give ourselves away. Somebody said the museum out here on 5th Avenue looked like a washing machine. Wright: That's one of my buildings.
But, I've heard a lot of that type of reaction and I've always discounted it as worthless, and I think it is. Amy Devers: On the afternoon of August 16th perhaps the world's most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was busy in Chicago developing the design of the ill-fated Midway Gardens concert venue and summer garden.
Some miles north west in Spring Green, Wisconsin Martha Borthwick, a translator, librarian, and Wright's long-time mistress, was just sitting down to lunch with her two children on the porch of the couple's country retreat that Wright had dubbed, 'Taliesin'. Wright was immediately taken with Chaney's wife and set about wooing her. The couple developed what was referred to by outside observers as an 'open closeness,' and what insiders called a 'deep and deeply scandalous love'.
