A collaboration between two people can often become a source of tension long after it is said to have been resolved.
What began in 1919, for instance, as a venture between Frank Lloyd Wright and his client, the oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, to design a 36-acre arts compound within a hilltop olive grove in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles ended on famously poor terms when construction ceased two years later. Wright sought control over virtually every element of the client’s residence at the center of the property, so the story goes, while Barnsdall, an outspoken independent feminist and devotee of experimental theater, was determined to incorporate flashes of her own personality into the property.
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