Eighty years ago in the Hollywood Hills, Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a grand experiment in modular housing that he called the Textile Block System. When the answers just aren't concrete - Los ...

1,000 people visit La Miniatura in Pasadena, the first of four 'textile-block' houses he built in the L.A. area. Tour shows off the blocks architect Wright played with - Los Angeles Times ...

La Miniatura, Wright’s first residence that utilizes the textile block system, has been on the market for over two years.With the price beginning at $7,733,000 and dropping to $4,995,000, Crosby ...

Once textile designer John Robshaw discovered block printing in Asia, his life and career set off on a whole new path. Robshaw’s fascination with this centuries-old artisanal method of hand ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s textile blocks famously featured cutouts of different designs. Production designer Julie Berghoff created ones with a C-motif cut into them for Continental Studios ...

A 150-year-old manor on the Coromandel Coast is revived by French embroiderer Jean-François Lesage, as a tribute to the ...

Congratulations to the new owners of Glendale's landmark Derby House. Designed by Lloyd Wright Jr. in 1926, the Mayan-influenced textile-block house came on the market in November asking $1.65 ...

In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but ...

But for a tour de force of screen block, drive down the 2200-2400 block of Alhambra Drive which showcases many rare patterns produced by North Hollywood Block in the mid-1960s.

Among the block’s architectural standouts are the Tudor house at 209 West Hillcrest Avenue, with its period details, and the aggressively Midcentury Modern house at 210 West Hillcrest Avenue, ...