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The highly-crafted pristine white structural frame and all-glass walls define a simple rectilinear interior space, allowing nature and light to envelop the interior space.

A wood-panelled fireplace ( also housing mechanical equipment, kitchen, and toilets ) is positioned within the open space to suggest living, dining and sleeping spaces without using walls.

No partitions touch the surrounding all-glass enclosure.

Without solid exterior walls, full-height draperies on a perimeter track allow freedom to provide full or partial privacy when and where desired.

The house has been described as sublime, a temple hovering between heaven and earth, a poem, a work of art.