(All photos courtesy Sotheby's)

Part of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) renown as a classic truancy film and Chicago landmark travelogue is the über-modernist glass and steel house with the disaster-inviting garage from which Ferris launches the priceless 1961 Ferrari belonging to friend Cameron’s father. The house (and garage), of course, is a metaphor for Cameron’s sad and lonely home life. As Ferris, the budding architectural critic, explains to his vaguely suicidal foil, “The place is like a museum. It’s very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything.” Read More