What do you get your boyfriend for his birthday if he is an ultra-famous actor and world traveler? Why a trip to western Pennsylvania, of course.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, Fallingwater, on Thursday for Pitt's birthday.
"Brad said he had wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college," said Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater's curator of education. "He and I talked quite a bit about design and art. He was incredibly well informed about architecture."
Armstrong led the couple on a two-hour tour, after which the couple dined on champagne and caviar in a private birthday celebration in Fallingwater's living room. Pitt turns 43 on Dec. 18.
"Brad said he had a visual sense of Fallingwater but experiencing it in person, hearing the sound of the waterfall cascading under the house and smelling the wood from the fireplace, was better than anything he could have imagined," Armstrong said.
The unique home spans Mill Run, a creek that flows through woods about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Wright built the home for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr. in the 1930s. The American Institute of Architects voted it the Building of the 20th Century.