Philip Johnson designed this Dallas estate in 1963. It is the only home in Dallas designed by Johnson. The residence was commissioned at a stage in his career when he was transitioning from a Miesian influenced ethos to modernism with a classicist reference. The exterior features a colonnade of cast stone arches reminiscent of the Lake Pavilion Johnson designed on his own property in New Canaan the year before. The interior and exterior floors are travertine laid out on a on a rigorous 5 foot by 5 foot grid which, along with the well-proportioned spaces, gives the house a very comfortable sense of scale. Several of Johnson’s earlier architectural designs are further explored including the plaster canopy of the dining room which references the guest house canopy at Johnson’s own New Canaan compound and the handrail at the entry stairs relate to the stairs at the Four Season’s restaurant in New York. (Bodron + Fruit)