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===Edith Farnsworth House <span class="anchor" id="Farnsworth House"></span>=== {{Main|Edith Farnsworth House}} [[File:Farnsworth House by Mies Van Der Rohe - exterior-8.jpg|thumb|[[Edith Farnsworth House]] (1946β1951)]] Between 1946 and 1951, Mies van der Rohe designed and built the [[Edith Farnsworth House]], a weekend retreat outside Chicago for an independent professional woman, Dr. Edith Farnsworth. Here, Mies explored the relationship between people, shelter, and nature. The glass pavilion is raised six feet above a floodplain next to the Fox River, surrounded by forest and rural prairies. The house took a while to be built due to the underlying issues between Mies and Edith Farnsworth. There was a complex relationship between the two for a variety of reasons, some related to personal feelings and others to design considerations. Back and forth legal disputes led to these ongoing issues despite the beautiful outcome of the design. The highly crafted pristine white structural frame and all-glass walls define a simple rectilinear interior space, allowing nature and light to envelop the interior space. A wood-paneled fireplace (also housing mechanical equipment, kitchen, and toilets) is positioned within the open space to suggest living, dining and sleeping spaces without using walls. No partitions touch the surrounding all-glass enclosure. Without solid exterior walls, full-height draperies on a perimeter track allow freedom to provide full or partial privacy when and where desired. The house has been described as sublime, a temple hovering between heaven and earth, a poem, a work of art. The Edith Farnsworth House and its {{convert|60|acre|m2|adj=on}} wooded site was purchased at auction for US$7.5 million by preservation groups in 2004 and is now owned and operated by the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] as a public [[museum]]. The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the [[Glass House]] by Philip Johnson, located near [[New York City]] and also now owned by the National Trust.
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