First off, I really want to visit this house, mainly to see what sound like very original and clever ways to modulate the space with movable elements. Also, the use of these movable partitions to change the use of the space from business to private sounds intriguing. For architects (and for users who may not realize how it works), differentiating between private and public use of space has always been a fascinating aspect of both life and the architecture that contains it.<p>As much as I love the use of glass block, the main space looks to have no human scale at all - no attempt to enable the visitor to understand clearly the size of their environment with respect to themselves. The salon looks like a big spatial box - I am not impressed with that. From the article, it sounds like the architect used the surrounding spaces to give human scale, but to understand the full effect, one has to visit it. <p>On the principles of preservation trumpeted in the article, I disagree. As an architect, a hundred years from now I would love to have my buildings restored to their original design, complete with non-broken and unblemished floors, polished elements that were intended for polish, painted elements intended for paint. The point of architecture as an art form is not to show how old it is, but to immerse the visitor in a world that is both real and idealized.