Travel Wright Celebrates 150 Years of Frank Lloyd Wright

  • July 14, 2016
Travel Wright Celebrates 150 Years of Frank Lloyd Wright
Travel Wright, which designs international and domestic cultural tours inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's work, has created special tours for 2017 to honor the 150th anniversary of Wright's birth. Each tour has a discounted price through Sept. 1.

Experts will lead the Trust's excursions to Japan and the United Kingdom. Curator-led domestic tours include a weekend visit to New York City and MoMA's exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, as well as Travel Wright's popular California Craft overview of modern architecture in Los Angeles.

Here is more information about Travel Wright's 2017 excursions:

New York City: Wright's Urban Vision
July 8-10, 2017 – This activity-packed weekend is ideal for the Frank Lloyd Wright aficionado. Included are private tours of Wright's landmark Guggenheim Museum; the Frank Lloyd Wright at 150 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art; and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, housing the most extensive Wright archive in the world.

California Craft: West Coast Modern and Frank Lloyd Wright
Feb. 10-13, 2017 – Against the backdrop of Los Angeles' most stunning scenery, California Craft features curator-led tours surveying the art and architecture that defined California modern in the early 20th century. Entry into private homes by Wright, his apprentices and architects of the Craftsman era is included.

Morris to Mackintosh: British Arts and Crafts
June 9-18, 2017– Led by Arts and Crafts expert Peter Cormack, this special tour covers the very best of British Arts and Crafts. Destinations include London; the Cotswolds, where the Arts and Crafts movement flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s; writer and critic John Ruskin's home in the beautiful Lake District; and Glasgow, home to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, an early pioneer of modernism.

Japan through the Eyes of Frank Lloyd Wright
Sept. 2-13, 2017 – Led by author Kevin Nute, an expert on Wright's Japanese influence, Travel Wright's 2107 trip to Japan has a special itinerary built expressly for Wright 150. The tour will explore architectural masterpieces by Wright and his disciples in Tokyo, Nikko, Nagoya, Ise, Kyoto, Kobe and Hiroshima.

For more information about these tours and Frank Lloyd Wright Trust's Travel Wright Cultural Journeys by Design, visit travelwright.org.