Broken Glass Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece
epub | 9.19 MB | English | Alex Beam | 2020
Description: The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture-and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.
"An amazing story, brilliantly told."-Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic and author of The Art of Rivalry
In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time-unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches. Their personal and professional collaboration would produce the Farnsworth House, one of the most important works of...
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