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Article: Books.(Book review)
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- Interior Design
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- March 1, 2008
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Edited by Stanley Abercrombie
Glass House: Buildings for Open Living
by Nicky Adams
New York: Vendome Press, $45
192 pages, 209 color illustrations
Glass houses are a common subject, but this is an uncommonly handsome treatment of them. It begins with an intelligent survey of early modern examples. In order of construction, they are: Raymond McGrath's 1937 Tunnard house in the U.K.; Harry Seidler's 1948 home for his mother and father in Australia; Philip Johnson's 1949 icon in Connecticut; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1951 Farnsworth house in Illinois; Pierre Koenig's 1956 Case Study house in Los Angeles; a 1964house, also in ...