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AMERICAN BEAUTY

or Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows – founders of the design company BassamFellows, known for its furniture, interiors and luxury fashion accessories – the architecture of Philip Johnson is playing an ever-larger role in their lives. Over a decade ago, the duo bought a light-filled house designed in 1951 by Johnson (with Landis Gores) for Richard and Geraldine Hodgson, just across the road from the architect’s famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (W*169). But that wasn’t enough Johnson for Bassam and Fellows: they recently moved their offices and studio to a

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