I have always been obsessed by glass houses, and even more so by the people who inhabit them. Robert Rubin is a total pimp and a collector of something even more exciting than fine art … fine architecture.

After Rubin got rich on Wall Street, he was able to pursue his real passion for collecting, and his most exorbitant investment thus far was the Maison de Verre, an iconic Modernist house made of glass hidden behind an 18th-century city block in Paris. I got a chance to take a private tour with a bunch of nerdy architects and PhD students whose eyes lit up at the site of the panels of illuminated 1920s glass and the lacquered revolving doors.

It must be strange for Robert Rubin and his New York family to live in the former doctor’s office and residence of a bourgeois Parisian gynecologist. But any modern architecture geek would do the same.

- Haley Hogan

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