{"id":20010,"date":"2011-07-20T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=20010"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:49:18","slug":"ennis-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=20010","title":{"rendered":"Ennis House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center>All Bladerunner fans, relax.  Deckard&#8217;s house is safe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/July%202011\/325063420-21175624en1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/home_blog\/2011\/07\/ennis-house-sold.html\">Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Ennis house<\/a> in Los Angeles was used as a set for some of the scenes in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blade_Runner\">Bladerunner.<\/a><br \/>\nThe Ennis House was released from a Wright family conservatorship in 2009 and has now been sold to a private party for $4.5 million.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/July%202011\/323639320-21175532en2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s these kind of brilliant design choices by director Ridley Scott that give Bladerunner its timeless quality.<br \/>\nOne of four &#8220;textile block&#8221; homes by FLW, the Ennis house was built in 1924 and was FLW&#8217;s favorite.<br \/>\nThe use of concrete was experimental, and it was hoped to be an affordable new building material.<br \/>\nThe concrete blocks were cast on site, modeled in a Mayan Revival style with Greek key\/meander motifs in the blocks.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/July%202011\/322860940-21175500en3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been inside the house, and this photo gallery is the most extensive one I&#8217;ve seen so far.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m incredibly drawn to this house, but my husband is absolutely repulsed by it.  Does anyone live snug and comfortable in a FLW home?<br \/>\nAnd why can&#8217;t we make fences with blocks like these? &#8212; albeit with modern-day building methods to minimize some of the crumbling the Ennis house has seen over the years.  <\/p>\n<p>A pity the blocks and house as built won&#8217;t last forever, but then what does?<\/p>\n<p>More photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/home\/la-hm-landmark-houses-ennis-house-photos,0,851373.photogallery\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Bladerunner fans, relax. Deckard&#8217;s house is safe. Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Ennis house in Los Angeles was used as a set for some of the scenes in Bladerunner. The Ennis House was released from a Wright family conservatorship in 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=20010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[148,551],"tags":[1340,1342,1339,1338,1341],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-5cK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20010"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67091,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010\/revisions\/67091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}