Design Store Sales Support the Glass House!

The Glass House Design Store, offering a well-edited selection of design-related products for men, women, children and the home, is now online!  Featuring exclusive commissioned items inspired by the Glass House, the Design Store highlights the latest in eco-friendly materials, production techniques, and design concepts from around the world.

Holiday gifts under $30! The New Yorker Glass House Puzzle  (May 20, 1967 cover, 500 piece, $25); Key chains by Karim Rashid ($20); the Aphrodite Glass House bud vase handcrafted in optic crystal ($25);  The new Glass House Guide Book with a foreword by Paul Goldberger, essay by Philip Johnson, and tour of the Glass House and grounds (Hardbound $25; Soft cover $16.95); The Modern Bird Cafe, a fun and contemporary interpretation of the classic bird feeder ($25). Start your holiday shopping now!

If you’re in the New Canaan, CT area, stop by The Glass House Visitor Center + Design Store, located at 199 Elm Street during holiday shopping hours: 10 am to 4 pm, Thursday – Saturday, December 8 – 17, for an even larger selection of gifts.

 

Holiday shoppers can also purchase gift certificates for select Glass House tours in 2012 before they are officially released to the public next February – available dates include May 4 – 6; July 4 – 6; and September 1 – 3. Ticket purchases must be made in-person.

 

All sales support general operations, educational programs and the preservation of the site, including the 14 buildings and structures, art collection, and the 47-acre landscape.

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Support The Glass House

Dear Friends, Architecture, Art and Audience are our three motivations. The Philip Johnson Glass House is simply one of the most significant modernist sites in America, the private home that inspired a revolution in mid-20th century living that extends to the present day. The site’s remaining art collection provides a fascinating insight to the curatorial talents of Johnson’s partner, David Whitney. Between them, Johnson and Whitney significantly shaped the exhibitions and collections of the Museum of Modern Art’s formative decades. In opening the site for tours and in creating deeper and richer web content, our goal is to educate and inspire you, our local, national, and international audience.To accomplish our goals of preserving, restoring and performing original research, we count on the generosity of our supporters. We count on you!This year, more than ever, we need your help to balance our budget: Our endowment covers only 40% of our operations, preservation and programs.

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Shop the New Glass House Design Store!

Visit the Glass House Design Store for jewelry, furniture, limited edition artist prints, and holiday gifts. Find eco-friendly materials and international design, as well as items inspired by the Glass House site. Shop online now!

Holiday Shopping Hours + 2012 Tickets Pre-Sale 

Visit the Glass House Design Store in New Canaan, CT (199 Elm Street) for a larger selection of items.

Holiday Shopping Hours
10am – 4pm, Thursday – Saturday, December 1-17, 2011

Tickets for select dates during the 2012 tour season will be available for pre-sale. All ticket purchases must be made in person.

Tickets for the full season of 2012 tours will go on sale in February.

 

Sales from the Glass House Design Store support general operations, educational programs and the preservation of the site, including fourteen buildings and structures, a permanent collection of art and sculpture, and the 47-acre landscape.

Tours and Tickets available for the 2011 Glass House tour season (through November 30).

To learn more about the Philip Johnson Glass House visit philipjohnsonglasshouse.org

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Shop the Glass House Bookstore

Shop the Glass House Bookstore for specially selected
art and design titles, including:

 The Philip Johnson Tapes includes transcripts of interviews and conversations with Robert A.M. Stern, each covering a decade of Johnson’s life and trends of architecture and history during the twentieth-century.

The Library of Philip Johnson: Selections from the Glass House examines 100 titles from the architect’s Library/Study located on the Glass House site and features an introduction by Robert A. M. Stern.

Empire of Space is composed of Todd Eberle’s photographs taken over the course of thirty years and is the definitive publication of the photographer’s work.

The new Glass House guide book, with forward by Paul Goldberger, presents an exclusive tour of the Glass House, its grounds, and collections.

More titles are available online and at the Glass House Design Store in New Canaan!

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Join the Glass House at Art Basel Miami!

Thursday, December 1, 4:00 – 4:30pm
Miami Beach Convention Center

Art Salon Talk: Inspiration, Cultivation and The Philip Johnson Glass House Collection

Artist Liam Gillick and artist and photographer Todd Eberle host an Art Salon Talk on inspiration and cultivation as related to the art + design collection at the Philip Johnson Glass House. Amei Wallach, art critic and curator, will moderate. General admission ticket to Art Basel Miami includes access to Art Salon.

View film of Liam Gillick at the Artists and Legacy Symposium.
View film of Todd Eberle at the Glass House.
Purchase a copy of Eberle’s new book Empire of Space from the Glass House Bookstore.

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Living in the Glass House

Dear Friends,

It has been an incredibly fast-paced year for the Philip Johnson Glass House. We celebrated our Fifth Season by developing new ways of welcoming the public to our site in person, online, through educational programs and events, and at art and design fairs around the world.

We’ve collaborated with significant architects (Charles Renfro, Tod Williams + Billie Tsien, Gregg Pasquarelli), artists (James Welling, Todd Eberle, David Salle) and writers (Paul Goldberger, Karen Stein, Philip Nobel), great chefs (Michele Richard, Brian Lewis, Bill Taibe, Lee Chizmar, Derek Wagner), as well as talented local high school students and their inspired teachers.

This year, more than ever, we need your support to help balance our budget. Our endowment covers only 40% of our operations, preservation and programs but we count on the generosity of our supporters to complete the picture.

Here’s why we hope you will  

New Tours

Focus: Concentrate on art, landscape and /or architecture -you decide!

Plein Air Afternoons: Unguided access for creative inspiration.

Pure Glass: Short, sweet and the lucid heart of the property

Cultural Experiences in Person
and Online

Private made Public: Salons hosted by cultural leaders are now available to all, either through an evening on site or connecting through an online film of each program.

Preservation and Conservation: The first site-specific work of Donald Judd, Untitled, 1971 was cleaned and conserved this season. Explore documentation of the it’s history, from archival images of the initial installation, to video of the conservation team at work and an online dialogue led by Flavin Judd.

Important Research: A seminal biography of David Whitney, Philip Johnson’s private but influential partner, is essential reading for understanding of the legacy of Johnson, Whitney and the Glass House.

Community

Generations Together: This fall marks our fourth year working with the New Canaan High School students and their teachers. This year’s projects included landscape photography and oral history films featuring local notable architects John Black Lee, John Johansen, and Fred Noyes speaking about his father, Eliot Noyes. These projects bring generations together to explore the essential history of New Canaan and Modernism. All of the student-produced oral histories and many of their photographs 
can now be enjoyed on our website.

47 Acres and 14 Structures

Storms: Besides the investments we choose to make, because we believe in them and their importance, there are the investments we need to make. Hurricane Irene, seasonal flooding and heavy unexpected snowstorms hammered the Glass House just as it did our neighbors. Repairs and canceled tours due to power outages and clean-ups resulted in significant lost revenues that severely affected our bottom line.

To maintain our role as an important community asset and site of international significance, we need your support. Please help us balance the Glass House budget with a generous year-end donation.

We welcome your support at every level.  

We hope to see you at the Glass House soon and often, on a tour through November, or early next season.

Sincerely,

Rena Zurofsky
Interim Executive Director

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As an additional thank you for your donation of $1,000 or more, we will send you a copy of the just published, limited edition Library of Philip Johnson. Written by Birch Cooper and Jordan Hruska, this beautifully illustrated book examines 100 titles from the architect’s Library/Study located at the Glass House site and features an introduction by Architect Robert A. M. Stern, textual analyses and 350 photographs.

Donors of $5,000 or more will also receive invitations to an exclusive event at The Glass House during the 2012 season.

Tours and Tickets available for the 2011 Glass House tour season (through November 30).

To learn more about the Philip Johnson Glass House visit philipjohnsonglasshouse.org

 

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Frances Palmer on Martha Stewart TV at 1pm + At The Glass House Design Store

Photo: ChiChi Ubina

One of the Glass House’s first commissioned artists, Weston, CT-based Frances Palmer, designed her unique, irreverently shaped bowls and vases based on inspiration from Philip Johnson and David Whitney’s succulent garden located on the Glass House property.

“In my new collection for the Glass House, I have made shapes both organic and modern. The vases echo the forms and geometry of the buildings and sculptures on the property.  The white and pewter glazes are inspired by the colors of nature through the Glass House windows.”

Frances Palmer Pottery, Select Designs Available Exclusively At the Glass House Design Store

Palmer, featured in the September issue of Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Magazine, will air in a segment on Martha Stewart TV today, October 7th, 2011 at 1pm on the Hallmark Channel. Catch the show, and see her work in person at the Glass House Design Store, 199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT 06840. For inquiries regrading current availability and prices please contact the store at 203.594.9884 Ext. 0.

Frances Palmer Pottery in the press:

Wall Street Journal: September 17, 2011: “Anything But Plain White” by Shax Riegler

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens: October 2011: “Perfect Union” by Cate Branca

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Limited Edition Julius Shulman Photograph at the Glass House Design Store

Photographic print signed by Julius Shulman and Juergen Nogai, limited edition of 50. Shulman photographed the Glass House in 2007, prior to the public opening. Julius Shulman is renowned for some of the most iconic photographs in architectural history. His seventy-year career documented the work of many of the great architects of the 20th century and elevated the genre of commercial architectural photography to a fine art form.
$2,000 unframed
Available only at the Glass House.
View more Glass House Commissions.

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New! Limited Edition James Welling Prints of the Glass House

Four signed and numbered limited edition (50) prints by photographer James Welling are now available, only through the Glass House Design Store online + in New Canaan.

All proceeds from Store purchases benefit the Glass House! Order your print today!

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Visit the Glass House & the Glass House Design Store this July!

Support Modernism in America and celebrate our founding father of modern architecture.

New tickets for July, including tours on Friday, July 8th, Philip Johnson’s birthday, have just been released!

Visit the Glass House Design Store for books and international objects of high style in person at 199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT or online. All purchases support the site and programs.

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