The Glass Pavilion, An Ultramodern House By Steve Hermann

Known for his modern designs, Los Angeles-based architect Steve Hermann completed The Glass Pavilion in 2010. Located on a three-and-a-half-acre lot in Santa Barbara, California, the 13,875-square-foot luxury home features five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms, a kitchen with a wine room, and an art gallery that displays the architect’s vintage car collection.

The architect initially built the home for himself but changed his plans and put the residence on the market last year for $35,000,000, with cars and furniture not included! Santa Barbara Magazine said the architect “wanted to create the most minimalist house ever designed.”

The Glass Pavilion, An Ultramodern House By Steve Hermann:

The Glass Pavilion is a redefining structure within modernism. It is a benchmark building that sets the bar for what modernism is and can be. A few grand buildings have defined modernism throughout the last century and inspired a generation to imagine what is possible within architecture and society. Mies Van Der Roh’s Barcelona Pavilion, Farnsworth House, and Phillip Johnson’s Glass House were these defining structures. Now, Steve Hermann’s Glass Pavilion takes the architectural tenants of these greats and catapults these concepts into the new millennium.

Set within a 3.5+/—acre estate of oak groves in Montecito, boasting 14,000+/—sq. Ft. under the roof, this home is impressive beyond words. An almost entirely glass home allows occupants to be comfortably inside while wholly enveloped in nature. It slowly comes into view as you drive down the long-gated driveway. You are immediately confronted with a large all-glass home floating above gently rolling lawns. The site of it is awe-inspiring.

Through the use of massive structural steel beams, the home can appear weightless as it hovers above an expansive lawn. No expense has been spared during the six years it took to complete this groundbreaking structure. The large panels are Star Fire glass, an apparent glass usually reserved for jewelry displays. Its kitchen and baths are owned by famous names such as Varena, Poliform, and Antonio Lupi. The best and most exciting products worldwide were sourced in each category to make this home flawless.

This is a home with possibly no equal. The combination of groundbreaking architectural style and extreme detail in finish quality make it a home without comparison. It is the pinnacle of architecture for this generation and will define the era in which it was built.

Photos by: Wm MacCollum

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