Meandering gardens and woods, sparked with daffodils, peonies and daylilies, flank the straight drive in. Up ahead near the path’s end is an aperture framed by an arbor of apple trees, capturing an elemental view of sky and water: the horizon of the Long Island Sound.
As you reach closer range, you suddenly realize you have been looking not merely through foliage, but also right through the house.
Meanwhile, the entry axis penetrates the pavilion’s simple 4,600-square-foot volume, notching into its far side and emerging as a long, miraculously shallow reflecting pool, incising the lawn with a silvery film, its distant edge dissolving optically into the Sound.
A really cool house . If it is a newer house how can it get a permit with all those new tigh energy codes.
I really hope the glass is that stuff that you can see through when it is electrified but can’t when turned off. How can you have “relations” with your spouse in there. . .unless you are an exhibitionist?
You build a house like this on a plot of land large enough to enable it to be hidden from the neighbors by the landscape. Anyone who comes close enough to the house to peep at you would be trespassing, and the dogs will take care of them (the local authorities on LI let the rich get away with most everything when it comes to property).
Nice house – the fawning description notwithstanding. Probably written by a Brandeis English graduate who didn’t make the cut at Starbucks.
I presume we are both thinking of this bit of purple prose:
Is this a real estate description or a Bulwer-Lytton entry?