The Villa Schreiner by Sverre Fehn is one of his most famous single family houses. Embedded within a natural setting, the building is also called "homage au japan". This building, constructed mainly of wood, is flexible like a japanese house with all its glass and sliding doors. These sliding doors allow the children's room, the bedroom and the dining room to be connected directly to the veranda, which is also called the deck. Also compared with the famous Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Villa Schreiner embodies the same pretension to precision, proportion and classical order. One is inveigled to think that in the Villa Schreiner pine wood is used instead of steel. Towards the street, the Villa Schreiner does not present itself with a friendly face. This side of the building is dominated by the timber cladding which runs all along this façade and the wooden posts supporting the beams of the roof construction. There is a recessed entry, where the wooden cladding is interruped for a single vertical opening. This rather closed and introverted facade strongly contrasts with the largely glazed elevation towards the garden.