A private tour for six persons of the Philip Johnson Glass House, led by the site's Executive Director, Director of Visitor Experience or our Philip Johnson scholar and personalized to your specific interests in any of the following themes: contemporary painting and sculpture, modern preservation and architecture, or landscape and design.  The 2008 season is currently sold out, so this is a truly exclusive offer!

Philip Johnson's Glass House was a remarkable achievement when it was completed in 1949. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (IL), its exterior walls are of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. It began a fifty-year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas through the addition of many new "pavilions"—Guest House, Lake Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Studio, and Visitors Pavilion — and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding forty-acre landscape.

The Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site, opened to the public in April 2008. Its mission is for the 47-acre campus to become a center-point and catalyst for the preservation of modern architecture, landscape and art, and a canvas for inspiration, experimentation and cultivation honoring the legacy of Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and David Whitney (1939-2005).