I will spare you the jokes about people who live in glass houses, but Philip Johnson's is probably the most famous anywhere.
The late great architect spent most of his life in this Canaan, Connecticut structure, appropriately called the Glass House, which is even smaller than it appears. It is not my cup of architectural tea, although the setting is gorgeous and the outbuildings that the mercurial Johnson designed on the 47-acre estate are far more interesting. Go figure.
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Photograph by Witold Rybczynski
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