Where is the best place to spend old age?The owners of this house believe that there is no better life than behind glass. We took a closer look and thought. Heather and Pete Kernis knew how to give their children a happy childhood. And the 16th-century farmhouse really did provide their family with everything they needed: reliable stone walls, light rooms, clean air and endless green spaces of the English countryside. However, when the children grew up and moved away, it suddenly turned out that their parents needed something completely different to be happy.
The modernist architect Mies van der Roheder Rohe) once said: "Less is more." He said it and designed the glass German Pavilion in Barcelona. 70 years later, designer Michael Manser repeated the success of the legendary architect and created a residential version of the famous exhibition complex. However, in order to hide the transparent house from prying eyes, the author of the project enclosed it with a high brick fence.
This is where the Kernis couple moved.An odd choice for retirees, isn't it? Not at all. The owners are delighted with their new home. Pete Kernis says he wasn't particularly upset even by the fact that the lack of walls meant he had to give up his extensive contemporary art collection, which includes works by 35 artists.
According to the couple, they have never been so close to nature, because in this house it is impossible to miss any weather phenomenon or change of season, even the dawn can be felt on the skin.
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Happy old age in a glass house
