Do Feng Shui Principles Equal Boring Design?
One of my favorite Feng shui stories to tell is the time our whole school went on a field trip to the Hollyhock House in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. It is a famous Frank Lloyd Wright designed house and we went on their regular tour. Like many Frank Lloyd Wright projects, this house had numerous Feng shui flaws from an architectural stand point. It was dark, with a very narrow passage way to the front door. The tour guide even said this was done on purpose to create a “birth canal” experience. You couldn’t tell easily what the orientation of the house was and the ceilings were oppressively low with not enough windows, just to list a few problems. Wright used to make some pretty uncomfortable furniture designs as well, including the concrete chairs we encountered in the dingy dining room! So it is bewildering when individuals have referred to Frank Lloyd Wright’s homes as having good Feng shui, simply because he liked to incorporate water features in an around the homes he designe
