Frank Lloyd Wright design only one in world

Thursday, 09 May, 2011 0

Most hotels don’t have regular private group tours by appointment by local historians but then most hotels aren’t designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, perhaps America’s most famous architect.

“Built as one of Phoenix’s first resorts in 1929, the Arizona Biltmore was constructed in grand form by brothers Albert, Charles and Warren McArthur. Frank Lloyd Wright served as the consulting architect, and the Arizona Biltmore remains one of the only existing hotels in the world to benefit from his influence,” according to the hotel itself.

“Typical of Wright’s style are the balcony and geometric massing of the lobby. Other notable features include the largest gold-leaf ceiling in the world (in the lobby) and a roof constructed of an incredible 32,500 pounds of copper,” says Frank Lloyd Wright sites.com.

The Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Phoenix, remains architecturally significant today, says Alex A. Moro, director of sales.

“Meetings and events take on an additional dimension for groups at the Arizona Biltmore,” Moro told MeetingsFocusWest.

In addition to hosting Marilyn Monroe, who swam in its Catalina Poll, the Biltmore has hosted every US President since Herbert Hoover.

The hotel takes groups as small as five or as large as 2,400.

The structure’s most unusual element is the architecture of Taliesin West, one of Wright’s most famous buildings.

“The architecture grows out of the desert floor, making it become one with the surrounding landscape,” said Donna Yeaw, a spokesperson for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Many groups staying at the hotel also tour Taliesin West, Wright’s winter home and a National Historic Landmark.

By David Wilkening

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