"Usonia aesthetics" inform Frank Lloyd Wright Airstream trailer

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https://www.dezeen.com/2025/06/07/frank-lloyd-wright-airstream-travel-trailer/







The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Airstream have created a travel trailer with an interior informed by the architect's design principles. Named the Airstream Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Limited Edition Travel Trailer, the 28-foot-long (8.5 metre) trailer was designed to pay homage to Frank Lloyd Wright's organic and Usonian architecture.







The first collaboration between the two organisations, the trailer was designed by the in-house design teams at Airstream's Ohio base and a team at Wright's Taliesin West home and studio in Scottsdale, Arizona. The teams sought to meld the "aerodynamic curves" and "innovative approach to mobile living" of Airstream with Wright's approaches to architecture







"It's not entirely inspired by one singular property," Airstream director of licensing Sally Russell told Dezeen. "Certainly Usonia aesthetics influence the design because [it] was the era of projects where Frank Lloyd Wright was working with smaller spaces." "This was one of the smallest Frank Lloyd Wright-style spaces we have," continued Russell. "And also, modularity was important in Usonian homes – having multiple functions for different areas and different spaces – and so that's reflected."







At 8.5 feet wide (2.5 metres), the trailer accommodates up to four people and contains two convertible beds, a kitchenette, a dining area, storage and a restroom. Travellers enter the trailer through a main entry and a metallic screen door, both which feature a geometric leaf pattern that runs throughout the project. The Gordon Leaf pattern was informed by the work of muralist and Wright apprentice Eugene Masselink, whom created the pattern for a bedroom project for House Beautiful Magazine editor Elizabeth Gordon. The pattern is found on the trailer's doors, and in details such as lantern-like scones that sit upon floating shelves along the trailer's ends. It is also found in the wall laminate that lines the trailer's dining and seating area.

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