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For the 70th anniversary of the (formerly known as) Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s first realized home in the United States and a National Historic Landmark, is being rebranded to better ...

Can you imagine Jeff Bridges playing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? Of course you can. Luckily, for those who bemusingly can’t, a film about the trials and tribulations behind Mies’s magnum opus dwelling, ...

The Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece in Chicago’s far southwest suburbs, needs no introduction. As graceful as a Greek temple and as serene as a Shinto shrine, the ...

The Edith Farnsworth House, designed by modernist architecture master Mies Van der Rohe, has existed through three separate phases – three lives, if you will, since its completion in 1951. Its first ...

At Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House–built on a flood plain in Plano, Illinois–preservationists are desperate to ensure that future floods don’t wash away one of the most famous residential ...

Musician, translator, doctor, and modern architecture patron: All four descriptors apply to a brilliant if overlooked woman who was born well over 100 years ago, in 1903. But Edith Farnsworth, whose ...

Dr. Edith Farnsworth’s chaise lounge chairs, designed by Bruno Mathsson, are seen at the Farnsworth House in Plano. The Farnsworth House, shown June 30, 2020, is opening an exhibition, “Edith ...