A House

[lsanderson]

A House Not for Mere Mortals
By FRED A. BERNSTEIN

East Hampton, N.Y.

THE house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.

But, for Arakawa, 71, an artist who designed the house with his wife, Madeline Gins, the floor is a delight, as well as a proving ground.

As he scampered across it with youthful enthusiasm on a Friday evening in March, he compared himself to the first man to walk on the moon. “If Neil Armstrong were here, he would say, ‘This is even better!’ ” More

Comments

Okay, it wins the Bizarre Du Jour Award

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

"A reporter, who thinks they should never, ever build hospitals like this, tried to go with the flow."

Just what I want, a long, uncomfortable life.

I posit that anyone living there would eventually develop their own comfort with the home (or their comfort with tearing it down and starting anew).

Thanks for the picture, and the link!