I have a fascination for Frank Lloyd Wright in general and his Ennis House in particular (think Blade Runner, Deckard’s apartment, and many other films). I’ve found STL files of the tile on Thingiverse, and carved small versions. But as an STL file, the only real option to carve as a raster, and when I scaled that up to full size, it was a 16 hour job or more, with a roughing path and a finishing path. Which makes no sense, the Ennis tile is perfectly geometric, it should be doable as a series of pockets… so I rebuilt the file in Carbide create, and carved an actual-size Ennis tile in just over 2 hours.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with it now, but that particular itch has now been scratched.
Old Frank had it going on. I like his prarie style and have made some things in his style. I like his geometric designs for panels and other objects. Frank had some real craftsmen working for him. Frank had the ideas but his craftsmen brought it to life.
FLW fan here also. It’s crazy that they were able to get that much detail in a stone casting back in the mid 1920’s. Not sure how well MDF does as an acoustic panel, but having a bunch of those lining a wall would look really cool.
I’ve seen the Ennis House up close–I don’t know how much the concrete has aged over time, but I think they are supposed to look very old and crumbled at the edges–the theme was supposed to be Mayan Temple.
