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| The house was affectionately named..Shin-EnKan, which translates into english as... "home of the faraway-heart". --o-- It would be one of Bruce Goff's few chances to work with an unrestricted budget. Many of his homes were built from rather unusual materials, often scavenged from unconventional sources. |
| Shin-EnKan would be no exception, but sometimes cost seemed to be of little concern. The emerald crystal-like material seen above was salvaged from a glass-firing furnace. |
| The roof was anodized aluminum, and the material on the vertical exterior was bark... ...stripped from a rare tree that grows only on the continent of Africa. |
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