Tour of Exhibition: Modern in Your Life Design and Art at the Schlumberger Building

Design firm BassamFellows has opened its doors for an exhibition, “Modern in Your Life: Design and Art at the Schlumberger Building.” of early modernist artworks and furnishings, beautifully placed within light-filled interiors designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson. Johnson designed this building in 1952 just three years after he completed his iconic home, the Glass House in New Canaan. This is the first, little known, commercial building designed by Johnson as Schlumberger’s administrative building.

“The single-story rectangular steel-glass-and-brick building consists of perimeter offices organized around a central core that contains an open-air landscaped courtyard, glass enclosed conference room, and library. The project, which involved buying, restoring, and re-purposing the property, took Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows of BassamFellows a total of eight years. The building was abandoned and empty for more than a decade. The restoration work was extensive and involved virtually every element of the existing building.  

‘The interesting thing about the building is that it is virtually unknown. The building was part of Schlumberger research division located just blocks from the center of the town of Ridgefield, CT but it was a high security campus, which might explain some of the mystery surrounding the building.’
—Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows

 Meet at 36 Old Quarry Rd.in Ridgefield shortly before 10:00 am. Register for the tour below.