Philip Johnson's Glass House Launches Online Hub for Design Conversation

Maira Kalman, “The Glass House,” 2004-05

When he wasn’t trading punches with Mies van der Rohe, collecting prizes, and redefining the urban landscape, uberarchitect Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was stockpiling Windex and living it up in the Glass House, his private residence in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 2007, the 47-acre property opened to the public as a stewardship site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a magnet for the design crowd. Now the Glass House is expanding its virtual real estate with glasshouseconversations.org,

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