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"Clearly Stated\nA glass house tells a story near chicago\n\"I wanted to look forward, not backward,\" architect Thomas Roszak says of his design for his own modern steel-and-glass residence on Chicago's North Shore.\nThe entrance. Roszak placed yellow steel tubes atop concrete beams \"as a nod to 16th-century Japanese wood construction.\" Red Poliform panels surround the powder room.\nRoszak, who shares the house with his wife, Justyna, and their young twins, Calvin and Ettiene, kept the furnishings \"pure and uncluttered.\" The living room has an Eileen Gray table, a Noguchi lamp and egg-shaped ottomans\u2014\"a favorite of the kids'.\" Bernhardt gray sofa.\nA view through the kitchen to the living/dining area. \"The first floor is one room where all the spaces flow into each other,\" says Roszak. Varenna cabinets. GE Monogram hood and appliances. Lutron light fixtures.\n\"The main delights of the master bedroom are the view and the light,\" says Roszak. Poliform bed.\nThe master bath. Warm elements such as cherry floors \"add just enough softness to the otherwise hard-edged lines of the rest of the machine.\" Varenna drawers.\n\"The house looks like a fish that turns shades of gray, white and silver as the sun reflects off of it,\" says the architect. \"I strove for a consistent interplay between the inside and the outside. All borders seem to fall away.\" The landscape architecture is by Douglas Hills."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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