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The living room's glass wall is the largest in the house, with 680 glass blocks. [25] The guest room at the front of the second floor had no air conditioning, so the glass block walls were fitted with two movable windows. [24] The master bedroom at the rear of the second floor is slightly curved outward in an "S" shape. [26] [27] [28]
The second-floor nursery is to the inside of the master bedroom. Placing the nursery next to the master bedroom permits parents easy access at night. When entering the master bedroom, one faces the outside windows and door to the second-floor parapet over the carport. To the right are built-in twin beds, and shelves or dressers.
The master bedroom is also on this floor, on the southern side of the house. A continental turned beechwood stool, late 17th century, with a crewelwork cover, was located in this room. [26] One of the two guest rooms is dominated by a mahogany four-poster bed, hand-carved in Grenada in the 19th century with foliage designs. The posts were ...
The living room flows into a dining area right next to the workspace/kitchen. Behind that is a bathroom. The quiet wing contains two bedrooms, a small shop area, and a study. [7] The house's original heating system consisted of steam heating pipes laid in the sand base that underlies the main concrete pad.
As a widow nearing the age of 70 as the house was completed, Vanna required that all her daily routine could be conducted on one floor, possibly with the help of a live-in caretaker. Thus the first floor plan contains all the main rooms of the house: the master bedroom, a full bathroom, the caretaker's room, the kitchen and a living/dining area.
Two smaller bedrooms and two bathrooms are placed above the living/dining room. [11] [19] [26] The second-floor bedrooms are positioned to face the garden. [11] [17] The rear of the house contains the master bedroom, dressing room, and bathroom. [26] The front rooms and rear bedroom are both separated from the garden by full-height sheets of glass.
Della added an addition, in 1960, to the master bedroom based on a 1956 studio addition that was designed by Wright. It was completed by some of the original carpenters that had built the house. [10] In 1964, San Francisco sculptor Robert Howard installed a crushed stone and copper ore mermaid sculpture on the deck, called Undine.
Habitat 67, as seen from street level. Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, is a housing complex at Cité du Havre, on the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie.