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WRIGHT HERE, WRIGHT NOW OAK PARK CELEBRATES FRAN LLOYD WRIGHT'S SESQUICENTENNIAL IN STYLE WITH THE DELUXE WRIGHT PLUS 150 HOUSEWALK. BY STEPHEN OSTROWSKI From the looming, looping Guggenheim Museum in New York City to the modular Hollyhock House in LA, Frank Lloyd Wright's oeuvre is aesthetic ambition without equal. It's why his cluster of 29 structures in leafy, sedate western suburb Oak Park—which boasts the world's highest concentration of Wright residences—is all the more special. Consider it but one of Wright's many stops on an oft- evolving design spectrum. "You see in Wright a figure like Picasso in the 20th century, who moves through many different styles and periods," contextualizes Celeste Adams, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. On May 20, Adams and company toast the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth with the Wright Plus 150 Housewalk, boasting exclusive interior tours of 11 structures by Wright and his con- temporaries that ribbon a walkable circuit off the town's Chicago Avenue—all anchored by the master's famous home and studio. Befitting the milestone anniver- sary, this year's housewalk ups the ante, offering a day trip to Wright's Penwern and Black Point Estate and Gardens retreats in Wisconsin as well as opening the doors to four private, rarely seen Wright spaces, three of which reflect his work "YOU SEE IN FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT A FIGURE LIKE PICASSO, WHO MOVES THROUGH MANY DIFFERENT STYLES AND PERIODS." —CELESTE ADAMS MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM 109 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CAULFIELD, COURTESY OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST SPACE REAL ESTATE & DESIGN