Tucked away in New Canaan, Connecticut, is architect Philip Johnson’s famous Glass House (1949). It and several other buildings—including the Painting Gallery (1965) and Sculpture Gallery (1970)—are located on 47 beautiful acres.
Because of our firm’s ongoing research into mid-century modern architecture for an upcoming Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture exhibit, this location was of particular interest to me.
The house itself remains completely original. (Here’s Andy Warhol visiting in 1964; you can see that little has changed since then—including the Poussin painting and the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs, table, and couch.)
Coincidently, artist Bernard Perlin was a guest of Philip Johnson’s in the 1950s.
