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.
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