For evidence, one must only head west on 52nd Street, to the recently shuttered Four Seasons restaurant, designed by Johnson with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, his “guru.” Yet the Rockefeller Guest House stands virtually unchanged, the best preserved - and yet least known - of Johnson’s New York works.
New York is not a city that always protects, much less values, its architectural heritage. Yet one would be forgiven for overlooking the unadorned brick-and-glass facade the house doesn’t give up its secrets easily. One of several private New York residences the architect designed, the house is a designated historic - as well as architectural - landmark.
ON A QUIET BLOCK in the East 50s in Manhattan, set between a music school and a prewar apartment building a coin’s toss from the noise of subway construction, sits a discreet, Modernist marvel: Philip Johnson’s 1950 Rockefeller Guest House.
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