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"In the Garden\nA Modernist Collection Shares the Spotlight with Nature in a Glass Pavilion on Fishers Island\nWhen Bunty and Tom Armstrong lost their beloved summer house on Fishers Island, New York, to fire, they opted for a transparent garden pavilion in its place. Architect Thomas Phifer designed a classic modern structure of glass, steel, anodized aluminum and black granite.\nIn the living room, a welded steel sculpture by Richard Stankiewicz surveys the garden. Myron Stout's Apollo floats above a minimalist fireplace. On the Barcelona low table is a 2007 ceramic by Arlene Shechet. Holly Hunt floor lamps.\nTom Armstrong, who designed the interiors to double as museum-like galleries for modern art, describes sitting under the skylight in the dining room as \"a semireligious experience.\" An Andrew Lord bronze is displayed atop the Eero Saarinen table. To the right hangs a canvas by Pat Lipsky; across from it are an untitled work by Ilya Bolotowsky (foreground) and Leon Polk Smith's Red Black White.\nOutside the bedroom, the Armstrongs preserved a large morainal rock from the cutting garden of their old house.\n1 Entrance Court\n\n 2 Living Room\n\n 3 Gallery\n\n 4 Reflecting Pool\n\n 5 Dining Room\n\n 6 Kitchen\n\n 7 Library\n\n 8 Bedroom\n\"The godfather of this house is Mies,\" confirms Tom Armstrong. Both natural and structural elements of the site are captured in a reflecting pool. A sunshade canopies a walkway surrounding the building. Phifer explains, \"I was interested in using the porch to blur where the house stopped and the garden began.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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