The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 20

PAOBTWKNTT TfflB AMAR1UX) GLOBE. AMARILLO. TEXAS. FRIDAY. MAY 19.

New Office Building Is Poetry Written in Stone, Glass and Metal in Modern Manner By OUSTAVE PABST, JR. RACINE. Wls. (N.A.N.A.)-It is ike a woman swimming In a ttrewn. Cool, gliding, musical In movement End In manner.

The Inside of an office building like a woman swimming in a stream? Yes. that's right. Bulit lor the Johnson Wax Co. here by the nation's No. 3 distributor of everything ancient In architecture.

Wisconsin's a Uoyd "Wright. He built It that way. Inside: Cool ind gliding. As different from an office of yesterday as that woman, swimming swiftly in the stream, Is different from her a i sister swimming in the sandy surf of mildewed mlti-Victorlnnism. The Sitting in a sorry neighborhood.

Almost akin to something in the desert by the nnclcnt sea called Red. How can one man disturb another's long-held thoughts so violently? How can he throw classic, renaissance, colonial architecture into yesterday's back yard? How can he make the "moderns" look so dwarl- Ishly ridiculous? With one vflst sweep of rod brick that he calls Cherokee. arU-rird i tubs of Rlass which brine In light; which, at night or gleam with THE NEW OFFICE BUILDING with its Cherokee red brick and its bands of glass--which Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the Johnson Wax in JUcine, Wis. ond breath and tread on up into 1 1 lolly- Maybe you would nay wood!" or "Pliul! New York's world fair. 1 Or "An 'Ism 1 of modern Hy." Maybe you'd remember, as a little boy, driving up to a big New Yoi hotel.

under a 1 ong porte- cochere, with terribly magnificent doormen. There arc no doormen here, but you drive in nnd park your ci what some old fogy might one have called vestibule. And then you stand and gasp. So this is what this fellow Wrlgh has done! He's made us little men feel big "Designed It was," he said, "to as Inspiring a place to work in any cathedral ever was in while! to worship." The Cherokee red brick, whosi color came from old Indian pot- THE OFFICE ITSELF--Vast and flowing- with light and lino. Take sitting at the bottom of crystal and looking up at groat lily pads floating on a sea of glass.

Tnft unusual desks also wore designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. PERHAPS THE MOST UNUSUAL office in America--a background of bent glass tubes which arc illuminated when, necessary. Using the telephone is Herbert F. Johnson, president of the Johnson Wax Co. Even the telephone cord is unusual.

Tills "lobby" sweeps up floor or and Jutting out are unaccounted Balconies filled with spring lowers and greening junipers. On either side are the "nostrils" which this stranRe man put In so "its crrfltlon, without single win- low, could breathe in ppace. Two circular ten feet In linmeler, are "filled with air con- itioninp apparatus" that takes the ir in dt the top and circulates it nrouRh the ducts to every room. Crawling up and down these nostrils nf Cherokw red brick arc polished a a starlCtcd Wttl caje, and I ft on a hydraulic pi mrer. But this'IP still the entrance hall, ieyonti Is the great workroom, 128 208 feet, In which 200 employes an its freely as though each ad her own" individual pool of pht nnrt air.

Light pours in gently from the IRSK bands which flow In magic invement around the room, from the skylights vastly overhead. And when daylight passes, from the glass tubing comes electric light that casts no shadows on the ledger books. A silly urge comes over you to lie flat upon toe bottom of this pool of liquid light and stare up at the lily pads--of concrete--that float upon Its glassy surface. Lilies of concrete! Man, are you mad? Some said he ires, but he took his slender monolithic shafts. Imbedded them tn metal tips within the floor and swept them upward--the "base nine Inches In diameter, the calyx, 2 feet 10" Another brain-child of this mad creature of another world Is the heating of this vast room of hU.

Wrought Iron. pipes for steam he laid in broken stone beneath a four- Inch concrete floor. And heat comes up as gently as the Hjhl fails from the sky above. The furniture, too, throughout, is Us. designed for case and use; has comi; out like metal business bugs or butterflies: with drawers that swing out with no pulling that's been the fashion for so many clumsier centuries.

The whole has been designed. by tills same man that some call mad, to "catch the flow of business" and sweep it on to the factories that lie beyond. On top of. the building are two wings which house the executive offices, In what he calls a penthouse; offices with silly little doors that have no locks; a vast glass window through which anyone can see the man who said to Wright: build me this dream of yours, in brirk and glass and air and light." COURTHOUSE RECORDS Warranty Deeds Bessie Crouch to Crouch, 5-18-39, MO. L30, B8, Ind.

City. S. B. Archer to Bessie Crouch, 20-39. UO.

B8, Ind. City. T. P. Metz et ux to B.

E. Keeliruj, 5-5-39, $3500. L5, B8. C. C.

Dlst. J. S. Holbert from Ellen Martin, 13- 24, B28, For. HU.

Tfr. $10. Car Registrations 39 chev. cpe. to G.

O. Tate, city. 39 Ford trk. to continental Carbon Herring Hotel. 39 Ford tudor to Sam Zlto, 21J Taylor.

39 Ford cpe. to Wayne J. Smith, 110 E. 3rd. 39 Dodge sed.

to W. N. Durham, 2110 Hughes. District Court Uoyd Few vs. Laura Leota Few, Divorce.

Edith McKnlght vs. Henry Mo Knight, Divorce. Marriage Licenses Luis Maestea and Reyfuglo Martinez. Roy Riddle and Katherine Basser, Edwin Keith Hickman and Dorothy Mac Ford. LIBERTY PKG.

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