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to the gabled ceiling. This chimney breast is faced on both sides with the natural treasure of Arizona--its colors of sandy pink, grey and brown—executed in different qualities of glass, gilded and painted with leaf, japan paints, mica powders and aniline dyes. All the colors in both rooms repeat this repertoire of the mesa's fading local flora, plant life and trees—varying shades of shrimp, ivory, mushroom and deep bronze—complimenting the view from the vast windows of the even vaster landscape beyond. One cannot mention great design in the desert without reference to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose 1933 pilgrimage to Arizona brought about the eventual creation of Taliesin West, to this day a foundation preserving Wright's work and a wintertime school for architects. Wright said, "Arizona needs its own architecture… Arizona's long, low, sweeping lines, uptilting planes. Surface patterned after such abstraction in line and color as find 'realism' in the patterns of the rattlesnake, the Gila monster, the chameleon…[these] are inspiration enough." Simon has followed Wright's lessons, above all about natural light, investing the interior of this house with huge wraparound windows, shaded, however, by broad, layered eaves which allow horizontal light to pass through the rooms. HYLAND