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3 Years and Over $2 Million: What It Costs to Restore a Frank Lloyd Wright Home

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America’s most famous architect inspires legions of fans. So instead we sought out the next best thing: Frank Lloyd Wright homeowners and curators who would share what their restoration processes entailed. The Pratt House’s exterior is made of concrete blocks and wood, and the interior features a mix of brick, stone, and wood.

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Restored historic paintings cover walls of converted Frescohallen restaurant

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Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has converted a listed room in Norway into a restaurant , adding an angular mirrored bar and restoring the building's historical frescoes. The artworks are now restored and lit with state-of-the-art lighting." All the dots, in various blue hues, reference the frescoes.

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Budget Breakdown: This Completely Restored $500K Airstream Is Built Like a Yacht

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Drawing inspiration from boat design, Innovative Spaces rebuilds a 1953 trailer from top to bottom with a custom mahogany interior. Renovating vintage trailers is not cheap—it’s like restoring a vintage car, and then building a house in it," he says. "I I saw a lot of subpar work," he says.

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Atak Architekti creates Liberec library by restoring and extending a former rectory

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Atak Architekti restored and extended a former rectory Looking to maintain the character of the existing building, its deep foundations were used to carve out a semi-recessed basement level, housing reading rooms and spaces to be used by local clubs. Photography is by Tomáš Souček.

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Ten rustic Italian interiors that evoke the history of the Mediterranean

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This lookbook collects 10 interiors in Italy with a distinctly rustic feel, including homes and hotels replete with wooden beams, cool stone and other rich textures. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, reveals its restoration

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Inspired by the innovative geometric designs of his mentor and Arizona Biltmore’s consulting architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Albert Chase McArthur built the resort to reflect its desert surroundings. Burton Studio and Wimberly Interiors. Burton Studio and Wimberly Interiors.

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Dezeen Awards China Interiors project of the year "preserves built history"

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A courtyard house converted into a fragrance store by FOG Architecture has won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Interiors project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. The project was also named retail interior of the year. This visually opened up the space while retaining distinct areas.

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