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Tale of Two Icons: Wally Byam and Frank Lloyd Wright

AirstreamJuly 17, 2025Last Updated: July 17, 2025

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Tale of Two Icons: Wally Byam and Frank Lloyd Wright

Born in the 19th century, both Wally Byam and Frank Lloyd Wright helped shape the 20th Century, and their works continue to inspire the world of the 21st Century. Watch “The Tale of Two Icons,” to learn more about the parallels between these two icons of design and how those connections helped inform the design of the new Airstream Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Limited Edition Travel Trailer.

Wally Byam, born on July 4, 1896, embodied the American spirit of exploration. From shepherding with a mobile kitchen to sailing with the merchant marines, his life was a journey in motion. That journey led him to begin building travel trailers in the late 1920s and found Airstream in 1931, a company that would revolutionize travel with its sleek, riveted aluminum trailers.

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Meanwhile, Frank Lloyd Wright, born two decades before Wally, was reshaping American architecture. With a deep respect for nature and a bold disregard for convention, Wright pioneered “organic architecture” and created designs that harmonized with their surroundings. His buildings didn’t just sit on the land – they belonged to it.