When he first moved onto his Partington Ridge property in 1971, Muennig built himself a small, sixteen-sided conical building on a steep and rocky headland. The 16-foot-diameter structure, known as the glass teepee, was designed to provide temporary shelter while Muennig went ahead with the construction of a more substantial home. But in Big Sur, time often slows to a barely perceptible crawl, and Muennig found himself living in the glass teepee for another eighteen years before he finished work on the bigger house. There were lessons to be learned, however. “I learned to live in a small structure and I learned how to live very minimally," says Muennig. “It didnt have any storage or closets."
For some, maybe - I would find it much too
ReplyDeleteclaustrophobic. Like being in one of those glass elevators!
The quality of the glass looks poor as well, or maybe it's just dirty. Living here your Windex bill would be enormous.
DeleteOn the other hand, imagine sleeping there during one of those Pacific storms coming onshore, with the raging sea spread out before you, and a fire crackling in that fireplace below. Transcendent!
I like it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't like to spend the rest of my life there, but it would be a spectacular retreat.
Big Sur is absolutely beautiful.
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