Stephen Bayley

An unconventional biography of the visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Paul Hendrickson’s Plagued by Fire sums up the contradictions and controversies surrounding the great man

issue 19 October 2019
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  • Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

    Paul Hendrickson

    Bodley Head, pp. 624, £25

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Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley is an honorary fellow of the RIBA, a trustee of the Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust and the co-founder of London’s design museum.

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