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The Philip Johnson-designed "Wiley House" is on the market for $14 million, according to the WSJ story. It is listed by John Hersam and Inger Stringfellow of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty.
The home sits on 6 acres and has four bedrooms. It was purchased in 1994 by Frank Gallipoli. According to a story on PreservationNation.org, Johnson designed the Wiley House to try and reconcile, as he said, "The (perhaps) irreconcilable: modern architectural purity and the requirements of living families."
Johnson built the home as a glass pavilion above a stone-and-glass podium, setting the pavilion at an 180-degree angle to the base. The roof of the podium provided terraces outside the glass box. The pavilion contained public spaces, including a living room, dining room, and kitchen, and the podium contained the private spaces, baths, a sitting room, a studio, a small kitchen and utility space.
Gallipoli, who now lives in New York City, said the home was like being "in a treehouse" with its unique architecture.
Click here to read the Wall Street Journal story.
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