?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ARCHITECTURE.) Peters, William Wesley. Monona Terrace Auditorium & Civic Center, Madison, Wisconsin. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the City of Madison Wisconsin . . . Specifications. Illustrated title-page and 7 folding architectural plans bound at rear. Text printed on variously colored papers by section. Thick 4to, original printed wrappers with stylistic design of the auditorium on front cover, covers soiled, edges creased, spine reinforced with heavy cloth tape as contents stapled in two large blocks which are separating at the center. Citizens for Monona Terrace, Inc. 1961
Uncommon specifications booklet produced by the project's head architect, William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects / The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, describing the proposed Monona Terrace project. Statistics, costs, construction and features, facilities, and contract bidder forms and instructions. The second of two editions published between 1960 and 1961. Wright, a native of Madison, began planning the Monona design in 1938 and continued to modify the building's design and seek support for the rest of his life despite seemingly endless administrative roadblocks and structural issues. Though he signed off on the final plans seven weeks before his death in 1959, debate about Monona's construction continued for decades. The final product was finally approved in 1992 using Wright's orignal designs for the exterior but with a redesigned interior by his apprentice and member of the Taliesin Fellowship, Tony Puttnam.
