A Tiny Masterpiece, Unloved, Faces Threat
Article or RSS item submitted by Ty Wenzel • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Architecture |
NEW CANAAN, Conn.
FOR $3.1 million in New Canaan, you can get a middling, multi-humped colonial colossus of no great distinction but sufficient grandeur to assuage your distress at not living quite as well as your hedge-fund-managing neighbors who paid twice as much.
Or you could get a house by Philip Johnson , the most celebrated American architect of the last half-century. It’s not just any Philip Johnson house, either: it’s one that a preservationist called “a livable version of the Glass House,” Johnson’s New Canaan home, a temple of transparency that opened to the public last year and now draws worshipful hordes daily to bask within the glory of high modernism.
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