There's no organized tour so guests are left free to roam the small home, stopping to ask the current owner - a good friend of Rudolph's with whom he bought the building and who owns the lighting store downstairs - questions about what living in the space is actually like. The kinetic assemblage of stairs, different horizontal levels and vertical walls, is magical. A & I got chatting to a Rudolph acolyte by the grand piano downstairs who told us about tours across the country in pursuit of his architectural hero. As we walked away in the summer evening gloaming, it struck us on nearby busy Lexington Ave that we hadn't heard a peep from the outside world once while in Rudolph's ocean-liner interior. Perfect start to a date night.
Open House at the Modulightor happen once every two months, next time in early October. See the Rudolph Foundation website for more details.
