Ever wonder how Philip Johnson managed to live in a fishbowl? If he needed a nap, he sometimes walked across the lawn from his famous Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., to the lesser-known Brick House, where an upholstered bedroom, like something from the Arabian Nights, awaited. Perhaps to maintain the illusion that he needed nothing more than his...
A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice -- including his hand-drawn sketches for towers that helped define postmodern architecture -- is to be put up for sale by one of Johnson's former partners, who has had them in storage for years. The cache contains more than 25,000 design sketches,...
In the 1960s, Philip Johnson designed a trophy house that evoked de Chirico by way of Dallas high society. More than four decades later, it has been meticulously restored, with a luxurious new landscape. Of all the houses that Philip Johnson designed, perhaps none are as strangely fascinating as the one commissioned by Henry C. Beck Jr. and his...