Rem Koolhaas, Designs for Spring Room

The Cosmic House is the result of numerous collaborations and commissions by the artists, designers and architects invited onto the project by Maggie and Charles Jencks. These designs for the Spring Room of The Cosmic House by Rem Koolhaas were rejected by Jencks as ‘not symbolic enough’. Eventually the commission was given to Michael Graves, who designed a fireplace crowned with three sculpted busts representing the three ages of Venus and the three months of Spring: April, May and June.