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glass menagerie: Modernist veterans and rising stars make a pilgrimage to one of the most iconic structures in modern architecture, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy.

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Arthur Port Draper and John Black Lee

The Glass House was maintained for decades by Draper, left, who, beginning in 1968, also oversaw construction of all the buildings at the estate. "Johnson knew the work was experimental, so he just assumed there would be problems," he says. "But he never once complained." Lee, along with the members of the Harvard Five, turned New Canaan, Connecticut, into a hotbed of residential modernist design during the postwar boom. He calls the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art" one of Johnson's absolutely best works." And, he adds, "the estate is like that, but on a much grander scale."

On Draper: Oxxford suit; Barneys New York. Dunhill shirt. Prada tie. Ermenegildo Zegna shoes.
On Lee: Dunhill jacket. Brioni shirt and pants. Giorgio Armani shoes.