Philip Johnson's Glass House

Philip Johnson Glass House
Paul Warchol

Over the years, the setting for the Glass House has grown from Johnson's original five-acre plot to 47 acres. Johnson's only concession to ordinary notions of privacy was a brick cylinder within the house that held a fireplace on one side and a bathroom on the other.

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