the house is a  foot by  foot glass rectangle sited at the edge of a crest on johnsons estate overlooking a pond the buildings sides are glass and charcoal-painted steel the floor of brick is not flush with the ground but sits  inches above the interior is an open space divided by low walnut cabinets a brick cylinder contains the bathroom and is the only object to reach floor to ceiling the new york times described it in  as "one of the th centurys greatest residential structures "like all of johnsons early work it was inspired by mies but its pure symmetry dark colors and closeness to the earth marked it as a personal statement calm and ordered rather than sleek and brittle"