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14 Lessons in Minimalism from the Glass House
1. Timeless design really can last a lifetime.
Above: Johnson’s living room furniture is by his friend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. (The Glass House itself was directly inspired by a model of Mies’s Farnsworth house in Illinois.) After seeing Mies’s German Pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona of 1929, Johnson ordered the furniture for his own New York living room and then used it in the Glass House. Once in place, not a single piece, down to the coffee table’s round ashtray and square box, ever changed (since the sixties, though, the stool has sported a cigarette burn left by Andy Warhol).
2. There are all kinds of ways to build a wall.
Above: How to divide a glass cube into living, sleep, and eating quarters? Johnson built dual-function barriers, including a standing painting and a long wooden storage cupboard that sections off the bedroom (and ensures clutter-free living).
3. Display art at a human level.
Above: Johnson purchased Nicolas Poussin’s 17th-century painting, The Burial of Phocion, at the recommendation of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s first director (Johnson himself served as MoMA’s first curator of architecture). The painting shows a landscape that uncannily evokes the pastoral scene on view from the windows. Its ingenious standing display easel is arranged so that the base meets the horizon line outside.
4. Incorporate air space into your room design.
Above: The interior is just over 1,700 square feet (with 10 foot, 4 1/2 inch tall ceilings), and each part has plenty of breathing room
5. Give in to window covers.
Above: Though the Glass House isn’t visible from the road, Johnson eventually succumbed to sliding panels to block the sun and prevent interlopers from seeing inside - Yale architecture students were among the many known to appear uninvited for a look around. Johnson’s woven window panels are from Conrad, which still specializes in custom sun shades.
6. Cover up what you don’t want to display.
Above: How to plunk a working kitchen into an eyesore-free, open-plan room? Johnson devised a compact but extremely functional galley - and then he figured out a way to make it disappear.
7. Brick makes interesting, durable flooring. (And it works well with radiant heat.)
Above: Is it time to rediscover herringbone brick? The Glass House’s floor is more indestructible than wood (if not easier on the legs). And it conducts heat well - the house has a hydronic radiant-heat system in which hot water flows through piping under the bricks. Go to Remodeling 101 to learn 5 Things to Know about Radiant Floor Heating.
8. A curve or two is pleasing to the eye.
Above: The house’s only fully enclosed room is a brick cylinder that serves on one side as a fireplace. When embers are lit, the room’s cross breeze is said to ignite the fire.
9. Consider a full-length medicine cabinet.
Above: Sheathed in pale green Italian glass tiles, the bathroom’s storage is cleverly tucked into its outsize medicine cabinet. For a similar design, consider Restoration Hardware’s Frame Metal Full-Length Medicine Cabinet.
10. Apply texture in unexpected places.
Above: Johnson loved to experiment with materials: He built an open-air Ghost House on the property from chain link fencing; constructed Da Monsta from gunite, a plasterlike swimming pool composite; and applied leather tiles on the bathroom ceiling.
11. A bedroom doesn’t need much more than a bed.
12. Layer your lighting.
13. Plants make good roommates.
14. Borrow freely from others.
1. Timeless design really can last a lifetime.
Above: Johnson’s living room furniture is by his friend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. (The Glass House itself was directly inspired by a model of Mies’s Farnsworth house in Illinois.) After seeing Mies’s German Pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona of 1929, Johnson ordered the furniture for his own New York living room and then used it in the Glass House. Once in place, not a single piece, down to the coffee table’s round ashtray and square box, ever changed (since the sixties, though, the stool has sported a cigarette burn left by Andy Warhol).
2. There are all kinds of ways to build a wall.
Above: How to divide a glass cube into living, sleep, and eating quarters? Johnson built dual-function barriers, including a standing painting and a long wooden storage cupboard that sections off the bedroom (and ensures clutter-free living).
3. Display art at a human level.
Above: Johnson purchased Nicolas Poussin’s 17th-century painting, The Burial of Phocion, at the recommendation of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s first director (Johnson himself served as MoMA’s first curator of architecture). The painting shows a landscape that uncannily evokes the pastoral scene on view from the windows. Its ingenious standing display easel is arranged so that the base meets the horizon line outside.
4. Incorporate air space into your room design.
Above: The interior is just over 1,700 square feet (with 10 foot, 4 1/2 inch tall ceilings), and each part has plenty of breathing room
5. Give in to window covers.
Above: Though the Glass House isn’t visible from the road, Johnson eventually succumbed to sliding panels to block the sun and prevent interlopers from seeing inside - Yale architecture students were among the many known to appear uninvited for a look around. Johnson’s woven window panels are from Conrad, which still specializes in custom sun shades.
6. Cover up what you don’t want to display.
Above: How to plunk a working kitchen into an eyesore-free, open-plan room? Johnson devised a compact but extremely functional galley - and then he figured out a way to make it disappear.
7. Brick makes interesting, durable flooring. (And it works well with radiant heat.)
Above: Is it time to rediscover herringbone brick? The Glass House’s floor is more indestructible than wood (if not easier on the legs). And it conducts heat well - the house has a hydronic radiant-heat system in which hot water flows through piping under the bricks. Go to Remodeling 101 to learn 5 Things to Know about Radiant Floor Heating.
8. A curve or two is pleasing to the eye.
Above: The house’s only fully enclosed room is a brick cylinder that serves on one side as a fireplace. When embers are lit, the room’s cross breeze is said to ignite the fire.
9. Consider a full-length medicine cabinet.
Above: Sheathed in pale green Italian glass tiles, the bathroom’s storage is cleverly tucked into its outsize medicine cabinet. For a similar design, consider Restoration Hardware’s Frame Metal Full-Length Medicine Cabinet.
10. Apply texture in unexpected places.
Above: Johnson loved to experiment with materials: He built an open-air Ghost House on the property from chain link fencing; constructed Da Monsta from gunite, a plasterlike swimming pool composite; and applied leather tiles on the bathroom ceiling.
11. A bedroom doesn’t need much more than a bed.
12. Layer your lighting.
13. Plants make good roommates.
14. Borrow freely from others.
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