Sol Friedman House
Pleasantville, United States
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Built in Pleasantville, New York, the Sol Friedman House (also called Toyhill) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1949 as the first of three Wright homes in the Usonia Homes development north of New York City. The house exemplifies Wright's post-war exploration of circular forms, featuring two intersecting closed circles for the main dwelling crowned with distinctive mushroom-like concrete roof slabs. Battered walls of random ashlar masonry support a band of metal-framed windows, while a matching mushroom-shaped carport anchors the composition along a straight terrace parapet. Wright named the residence Toyhill after his client Sol Friedman, a retailer of books, records, and toys, and the design foreshadowed the architect's fuller deployment of circular geometry in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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- single-family detached home
- Place
- Pleasantville, United States
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