Kaufmann Office

Simon Willison shared his experience walking through the fairly new Victoria and Albert East Storehouse (London, UK), which I found to be interesting. One item stood out to me though: the Kaufmann office. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it is the only fully interior room designed by Wright on display outside of the United States. I hadn’t heard of this office before or seen pictures of it, but I recognized the Kauffman name instantly.

Kauffman was a wealthy retail store owner in Pittsburgh who commissioned Wright to design a family home in western Pennsylvania. That building became to be known as Fallingwater, one of my personal favourites and one of the reasons I have a strong interest in architecture.

I also happened to watch a video on YouTube which showed more of the interior than I could remember seeing. That video informed me that Kauffman’s son donated the building after his father’s death and is open to the public now which is rather interesting to me.

I like it when my personal interests intersect across different sites/media.