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Frank Lloyd Wright: Interior Designer, Interior Design
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is a renowned American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator credited with the completion of more than 532 amazingly designed buildings. Wright a devoted naturalist felt man-made structures should coexist with humanity. For instance, his organic approach to architecture implemented many beautiful characteristics of nature such as water, stone, and wood into his designs of, schools, churches, museums, hotels and office buildings.

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