The Phoenix residence that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son is back on the market, because funding to support its donation to the School of Architecture at Taliesin fell through.
David and Gladys Wright House owner Zach Rawling has listed the spiralling property in the Arizona city's Arcadia neighbourhood for nearly $13 million (£10 million), after coming to a "mutual agreement" to end a collaboration with the School of Architecture at Taliesin.
The David and Gladys Wright House was donated to the School of Architecture at Taliesin last year
Rawling gifted the structure to the school in summer 2017 ? bringing an end to years of speculation about its fate, which included plans for its demolition ? on the condition of raising $7 million (£5.4 million) in endowment funds by 31 December 2020. The House and the school teamed up to create a joint fundraising organisation called the David Wright House Collaborative Fund. But, after only one year, Rawling and the school's dean, Aaron Betsky, decided that this goal, and working together, is unachievable.
School and David and Gladys Wright House end financial agreement
"Over the past year, we have learned that the fundraising timetables of both parties do not lend themselves to a joint campaign," Rawling and Betsky said in a joint statement posted on the David and Gladys Wright House website.
The David Wright House Collaborative Fund will now be dissolved, and proceeds already raised will go...