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God is in the Details

Frank Lloyd Wright was just a dude.

Well, he was more like a dude who built buildings. I’m sorry. Let me be more specific—he was a dude that built some of the most influential and innovative buildings in modern architecture.  Even if you’ve never heard of him, you already know him. His houses, office buildings, churches, museums, stain glass, and artistic and visual concepts have influenced most art and architecture created in the last 100 years.

From his early homes in Chicago to the Guggenheim in New York to his later desert houses in Arizona, Wright’s style of extreme detail paired with his emphasis on the relationship between what was indoors and out changed the way we live forever.

Not to mention, he was also crazy.
There is a story about a family that built a Wright house in Chicago, and after moving in, invited him over for dinner. Wright was so upset about the changes the family had made to the arrangement of the furniture, he spent most of the evening realigning the chairs to the dining room table and the placement of lamps on end tables.

To Wright, the smallest of details, the way the sofa sat under a window, were apart of his overall design. He believed even the head of a screw or a pane of glass was significant and valuable.

What are these small things?

These seemingly insignificant details of life that we often miss? What kind of impact would these details make if only we stopped to take a closer look?  God is the Details is a series about examining these small things, looking a little closer, to see the significance and the value in what we’ve never seen before.

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  1. Jessica
    God is in the Details starts tomorrow!! I have a feeling it's going to be a great series. Join us on Sunday mornings at 10:37a

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