Broken Glass: Mies Van Der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece

by Alex Beam

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399592717
• ISBN13: 9780399592713
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"