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Left: Glass Art Adaptation Right: Early sketch from Frank Lloyd Wright

In 1927 Frank Lloyd Wright designed a
stylized detail from a desert landscape is adapted from “Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers”, For a set of magazine covers for the Liberty Magazine (that were not published at the time). This design was re-created by Mr. Wright in 1955 for a rug, and was also adapted by the Taliesin Architects for an art glass window installed in the 1970s remodel of the entrance to the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona where it can still be seen today.