Tony Allgeier

Tony Allgeier is a Pittsburgh-based performance artist who is also known as drag persona, Alora Chateaux. Allgeier works professionally as an interior designer and is a self-proclaimed “furniture nerd.” He appeared on the design competition television show, Design Star: Next Gen on HGTV/Discovery+. Allgeier holds a B.S. from LaRoche College in Interior Design. 

In character as Alora Chateaux, Allgeier has created educational programs, videos, and performance for the Andy Warhol Museum and Westmoreland Museum of American Art.  

About Fallingwater Institute

When Edgar Kaufmann jr. entrusted Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, he envisioned Fallingwater not only as a place where visitors would come to experience great architecture, but also where a deeper experience of art, design and nature might occur.

Kaufmann imagined that Fallingwater could become a place where artists, scholars, designers and learners might come to find inspiration from the building and its landscape while pursuing individual or group study. Today, the Fallingwater Institute, formally established in 2015, honors that vision by providing a stimulating location for creative collaboration and inspired thinking through immersive classes, workshops and residencies. By serving an international community through its innovative programming, the Fallingwater Institute works to create and disseminate new ideas that promote harmony between people and nature.