New Curator Selected To Oversee Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

 

AP New curator selected for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

PITTSBURGH, PENN. (AP) — A new curator will oversee the preservation of Fallingwater, a home designed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright and considered the architect’s masterpiece.

Justin W. Gunther previously managed restoration at George Washington’s home in Mount Vernon, Va., where he was responsible for the preservation of more than two dozen historic buildings.

“We are delighted to have attracted a curator of Justin’s caliber,’’ said Lynda Waggoner, Fallingwater director and vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

The Fallingwater Museum collection includes more than 950 works of art, including prints, paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, art glass and miscellaneous objects.

The unique home spans Mill Run, a creek that flows through woods about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The home, built for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr, was voted “Building of the Twentieth Century’’ by the American Institute of Architects.