Saturday Links
Bach against modernity, the pleasures of walking, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, and more.
Good morning. The Tour de France starts today. If you haven’t watched the Netflix documentary of last year’s race—Tour de France: Unchained—I recommend it. So, too, does James Delingpole at The Spectator: “Partly why it works is the scenery. Unlike Grand Prix circuits, which are much of a muchness, virtually every stage of the Tour is quite gloriously picturesque, especially when you get to the mountain sections. Whenever you tire of panting men in multicoloured Lycra, all the camera has to do is cut away to a shot of a charming red-roofed café, a hillside village with cobbled streets or a vertiginous aerial view – and once more you’re in an ecstasy of photogenic escapism. The personalities are more relatable too.”
Fred Bernstein talks to the last person living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home designed for him by the late architect: “‘After me, there won’t be any others,’ says Roland Reisley, absorbing what it means to be the last original occupant of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Reisley is sitting in his hexagonal living room on a rocky hill near Pleasantville, N.Y. The most famous architect of the 20th century designed the house for Reisley and his wife, Ronny, making many adjustments to his original plan to meet their needs (for a broom closet, for bookshelves, for more kids’ bedrooms). It was completed in 1952, during a postwar boom in which Wright designed 120 houses in—amazingly—31 states.”
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