page_title: Jack Lenor Larsen
section_title: LongHouse
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Lenor Larsen / LongHouse
caption_attribution_description: English: LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, New York
context_page_description: Jack Lenor Larsen is a textile designer, author and collector and promoter of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship in all its forms.
context_section_description: Larsen's East Hampton house, "LongHouse", completed in 1992, was built as a collaboration with the architect Charles Forberg, their 30th project together. It is a large house, with 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m²) of floorspace spread across 18 spaces and four floors. The design is inspired by the important Ise Shrine in Japan. The building is raised on stilts, and the spaces are divided by fabric sliding panels that showcase Larsen's fabrics and his collection of historical and contemporary crafts, including works by Lucie Rie, Wharton Esherick, Edward Wormley, and a glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly, whom Larsen encouraged to take up glass-blowing. While the house is not open to the general public, the landscaped sculpture garden surrounding it is regularly open to the public. Sculptures in the garden include works by Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, Bryan Hunt, and Yoko Ono, among others.
caption: LongHouse in November 2012
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