The narrators here are the former worldwide Head of Christie’s 20th Century Decorative Arts Department for 20 years, a university Professor Emeritus of Design History, and The Associate Curator of 20th-century Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (amongst others). Maybe to see a sucker you might try looking in the mirror.

@@JamesSmithKZfaq Yea, all that and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds.

@@JamesSmithKZfaq But let's not talk about that. Let's talk about post tension anchor repairs required on the cantilevers at Falling-Waters that were needed to keep it from, well.. falling into the water due to poor engineering. Let's talk about the dismal engineering failures of the concrete block Mayan style houses in LA. Let's talk about the house that collapsed during construction due to poor engineering. Let's talk about paying more than Harvard's tuition to be one of his "apprentices" and then having to live in a hovel and perform menial labor. Finally on a personal note let's talk about dumping a wife and six kids to run off with a client's wife. On second thought never mind, you just keep on being a fan boy of FLW.

@@stuglenn1112 Why so so angry, poor baby?

@@stuglenn1112 Uh-huh. And taking your opinion into account is like taking expertise from ballet dancer about nuclear fission. Everyone has an opinion. But not all opinions have equal value. Yours, not so much. So calm down.

Not true at all. I own a FLLW house, and the original furniture included is extremely comfortable and ergonomic. As far as refinement, for the Usonian houses that were built for modest people of modest means, the furniture was purposely deigned and built simply to be as economic as possible.

Guess you believe Victorian, Baroque antique and Revivalist that he rejected was beautiful?

​@@youtubecommenter4069 On the contrary my friend. I trained as a furniture and industrial designer and have a keen interest in art and design spanning different periods and cultural locations. However, I have to admit I would particularly struggle to engage with and appreciate furniture from the periods you mentioned! No, it's just a case that I find a lot of his furniture (not all) to be unergonomic and aesthetically challenged.

​@@mgsee, It's good to agree on something as we seem to do. FLW was avantgarde in his entire career. Working as he did with nature; stone, wood and "newer" materials like reinforced concrete and glass while experimenting and producing some masterpieces, extending this to furniture would produce less than optimal prototypes - the user friendliness would need further development. This, including his tools of work; the tee square and triangle contributed to his overall aesthetic that extended to his furniture. I believe such approaches as the Bauhausian school "whittled" a lot of what FLW's heavyset-looking furniture comparatively was. FLW, although an engineer/ architect as Marcel Breuer and many other Bauhaus graduates were tried to integrate his building and his furniture and vice-versa hence the furniture look. The Bauhausian approach was much contrasted. In addition, FLW’s differentiated furniture designs for his houses and offices like the Johnsons Wax, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to me talk to his recognition of “ergonomics”. The collectors interviewed seen do confirm this