accordion of wood and glass
James Stewart, of calculus textbook fame, recently completed his $24 million house in Toronto, its design supposedly inspired by integral signs. Check out this slideshow and article at the wall street journal’s website.
Regarding his reason for building such an expensive house, reportedly costing nearly all of his career savings and investments, he said
“My books and my house are my twin legacies…If I hadn’t commissioned this house, I’m not sure what I would spend the money on.”
Nice houses are nice. But he was completely unable to think of anything good on which to spend $24 million. If he wasn’t Canadian, I would say “typical uninformed apathetic materialist American.” I think there exist thousands of charities, foundations, and social/economic/health/peace/human rights projects that could have used even $500. Way to be a good human being, James Stewart.
John said,
5 June 2009 at 7:06 am
He did it because deep down, his generation of academic-types want to live in a science-fiction inspired house like those that Frank Lloyd Wright designed and throw cocktail parties with angularly appropriate hors d’oeuvres. He probably chucks politically-correct amounts of money every year at Heifer International, NPR, Human Rights Campaign and the Sierra Club.