We tagged along with our architect friends on a trip to the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Conneticut. Clearly Mister Johnson did not design his masterpiece home with children in mind, we realized as we pushed the baby stroller along the bumpy winding pathways. But beautiful nonetheless.
Notable things – the contrast between the glass house and the brick house (of course), the disproportionately large landscape on which the tiny houses stand, the cone-shaped swimming pool – how exactly does one “swim” in such a thing, and the super bunker art gallery where a Warhol piece is hidden behind a moving wall. Oh, and the giant copper log en route to the very sun-filled atrium. My summary doesn’t do justice to all the things you’d see there. You’ll have to plan far in advance for a visit to the Glass House though – tickets are sold out almost a year ahead of time. We got ours before mister baby was even born.