Horan says that Wright "wanted to create an architecture that was true - something that emerged like a plant from the earth. "I'd like to have architecture that belonged where you see it standing and was a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace," Wright once said. Mamah became intrigued, then obsessed, with a man who was re-inventing architecture.
"I think what saw in Mamah was a very attractive woman, a woman with a great deal to say - curious about the world in the way he was," says author Nancy Horan, who chronicles the real-life love affair in a book called Loving Frank. Mamah and her husband Edwin Cheney had two young children. In 1909, Wright of Oak Park, Ill., married, with children, ran off to Germany with a neighbor - Mamah (pronounced "May-mah") Borthwick Cheney, the wife of a client. A new novel imagines a scandalous and little-known part of Wright's history. By then, he had stamped an original style on buildings, and had been lauded and vilified - often in equal amounts.
Frank Lloyd Wright, the legendary American architect, had a long and remarkable life.
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