Last week when I visited the Glass House in New Canaan to see Yayoi Kusama's red polka dots on Philip Johnson's iconic building from 1949, I was also able to get my first peek inside his Studio. For a bibliophile like me, it was a real treat.

The Studio was completed in 1980 and therefore exhibits some postmodern tendencies that are at odds with the Glass House proper: brick instead of glass; a jumble of forms instead of one Platonic form; and references to old buildings in the cone and chimney. Here is the approach to the Studio from the direction of the Glass House:
I snapped only a couple detail photos of the bookshelves, this one because it includes a GA Document I had just written about on my Unpacking blog:

And this one because of the way the young face of Zaha Hadid was looking at me and must have looked at Johnson when he went in and out of his remarkable little Studio.

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