The Glass House

An interior installation for Knoll at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, conceived as a contemporary inhabitation of one of modernism’s most iconic domestic spaces. Rather than treating the house as a static historical setting, the intervention introduces a layered and tactile material language through furniture, textiles, color, art, and objects. The material palette responds to the idea of glass itself— reflective, mutable, and continually transformed by light and its surroundings. Polished metals, lustrous textiles, leather, and surfaces that shift in color and character throughout the day are set against softer, more absorptive materials. A pale pink carpet establishes a temporary interior territory within the continuous brick floor, while oxblood, tobacco, silver, black, and vivid blue create moments of density and reflection within the transparency of the architecture. Together, these contrasts explore the relationship between permanence and change, transparency and opacity, reflection and absorption— allowing the furnishings to respond to the house and landscape rather than simply occupy them.

LOCATION: New Canaan, Connecticut
CLIENT: Knoll
COLLABORATORS: Pernilla Ohrstedt
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STATUS: Complete
YEAR: 2026