Truly lovely mini-coffee table book without a lot of meaningful text. Fun to get from library but wouldn't buy. ( )

I’m in F.L.W. country* and Frank Lloyd Wright: American Master was a Christmas gift. It’s a dense book -- a dozen pages of erudite text provide (some) orientation and context for several hundred photographs that show the breadth of Wright’s residential and commercial work.

There are exteriors and landscapes, interiors and furnishings; the dimly lit interiors seemed like poor photography until I’d seen enough that I began to feel I was actually in the rooms with their ambient lighting … and now I wonder if it was intentional? As for Wright, I’m more at the “primer” stage and need a lot more (con)text and fewer photographs. This is a book to (maybe) add to a collection on Wright, not one to begin with.

*One of the best aspects of the book is realizing how widespread F.L.W. country grew to be ( )