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Who Slept Here?

olgawright-bedroom.jpgThe answer may be easy for many of you. Whose bedroom is this? Take a guess and see below the jump...

 
 

Who slept here? The answer is Olga Milanoff. Does the name ring a bell? You may know her as Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright. She was FLW's last wife and this was her bedroom at Taliesin West.

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"Love your work, love your wife, tell the truth -- that's all there is to life." - Frank Lloyd Wright.

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I guessed it!
That's a great quote -

posted by blackbird on May 16th 2008 at 11:55am
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Ohh, the view from her room is onto the tiny grass yard and the most super fab patio metal set.
I was just there in Nov. amazing space.

posted by DahliaCactus on May 16th 2008 at 11:58am
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I knew it had to be Taliesin West. When I saw that unusual double chair, I thought of Olga and Ol' Frank sitting in it.

posted by rdml on May 16th 2008 at 12:02pm
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And who was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter? The movie actress Anne Baxter!

posted by readingglasses on May 16th 2008 at 12:04pm
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Where did he sleep?

posted by right angle on May 16th 2008 at 12:12pm
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I also focused on the unusual double chair - but since I had no idea I guessed two left handed people.

I have better luck with "guess the decade" contests.

posted by peacelily on May 16th 2008 at 12:15pm
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I guessed Frank Lloyd Wright, so I wasn't too far off. I work in a FLW building, so the room looked kind of familiar.

posted by glamtart on May 16th 2008 at 12:37pm
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Didn't he have a terrible home life?

posted by AmyV on May 16th 2008 at 1:40pm
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More like he was a terrible person.

posted by right angle on May 16th 2008 at 4:00pm
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You're both "wright"! (Sorry). Wright had a family with lots of kids in Oak Park, IL when he ran away with the wife of a client, one Mamah Cheney. He had Taliesin built in Spring Green, WI as a new home, but not too long after a groundskeeper at the home went nuts, set fire to Taliesin, and murdered 7 people with an axe, including Mamah and her 2 children. Olga (Olgivanna) was his third wife (he never married Mamah and there was a 2nd wife, Miriam, between Mamah and Olgivanna), and they seemed very well-suited to each other.

posted by rdml on May 17th 2008 at 5:10am
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He was married when he ran off with the wife of a client. True.
That's why I said he wasn't a very nice person.

posted by right angle on May 17th 2008 at 10:42am
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also, his son invented lincoln logs...

posted by voodoodle on May 19th 2008 at 5:30am
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i guessed it correctly because it's the same weird decorating scheme as the Falling Water House...

posted by my little apartment on May 19th 2008 at 1:50pm
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