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

by Alex Beam

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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"

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