Museum
Casa de Vidro Lina Bo Bardi
Glass-walled modernist home on stilts, its collected art and objects scattered by a bitter family inheritance dispute.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Casa de Vidro, Lina Bo Bardi's glass house in São Paulo, opens with Alexander Calder sketching caricatures of his hosts one evening in 1952, then moves through the decades in which Pietro Maria Bardi filled the house with Baroque saints, folk art and visitors like Gio Ponti and Max Bill. Lina died in 1992 and left the collection to an institute the couple had founded. Look at the surrounding forest, which Lina planted herself and complained never grew fast enough.
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