modernist classic glass house

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Back in December of 1948, The New York Times reported that hundreds from a “conservative old community of colonial homes” turned out to watch workers complete Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut.

Step inside this modernist classic today: http://nyti.ms/1b2R13c (Photo: Randy Harris for The New York Times)