Experience dragon rock, the experimental home which wright built onto the rock ledge of an abandoned quarry while masterfully orchestrating the surrounding. Manitoga includes 75 acres of land on the site of a former quarry with 4 miles of marked trails, the former home and studio of american industrial designer russel wright, and a gallery displaying his work. Preserve manitoga as the embodiment of russel wright’s design philosophy and life’s work.

Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center

In 2021, the russel & mary wright design gallery opened to the public, offering a permanent onsite display of the wrights’ groundbreaking designs for the american home. As the only permanent, public exhibition of wright’s products, the russel wright design center is an installation of over 200 objects that tell the story of how this legendary designer forged a modern american lifestyle through groundbreaking objects for the home. Once a ravaged industrial site, wright transformed manitoga into a place of extraordinary beauty.

His approach to design and everyday living—“good design is for everyone”—is exemplified in manitoga, his hudson valley residence and woodland garden.

A gallery of russel wright designed products. 2,641 likes · 21 talking about this · 1,867 were here. Manitoga / the russel wright design center preserves, protects and shares russel wright's modernist house, studio and woodland garden as a masterful integration of design and nature, a powerful example of land reclamation, and a resource for inspired design in daily living through public tours, programs and events. It is a national historic landmark, an affiliate site of the national trust for historic preservation, and a world monuments fund watch site. Manitoga is a national historic landmark and one of the few 20th century modern homes with original landscape open to the public. Inspire creativity and enhance the lives of many. The home stands as a testament to wright's belief that man should live in harmony with nature. Access to the home is by tour only (see below for tour info), but the woodland trails are open to.