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I met Carol and Bill Pollak when I was interning without pay in San Francisco, living (not very well) off my paltry savings. As parents of a friend I’d known in DC, they were kind enough to invite me over for dinner and feed me a square meal. When I remarked on their lovely Marin County home, they agreed it was “nice,” but insisted it was nothing like their previous house, which they described as truly special.
For a little over a decade, from 1988 to 2000, the Pollaks lived in the Chicago suburb of River Forest in a 10-room home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Isabel Roberts House was erected during Wright’s quaintly termed “Prairie” era and renovated by the architect in the early 1950s. The Guggenheim is currently feting the 50th anniversary of their own iconic, Wright-designed building — giving us the perfect excuse to grill them on what it’s like to live in one of the great man’s houses. Read More »
