Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece / Ale...
Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece / Ale...
Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece / Alex Beam.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Random House, [2020]
Call Numbers
G 2020/4990
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Random House, [2020]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplis...
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Full title
Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece / Alex Beam.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
©2020
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Call Numbers
G 2020/4990
Record Identifier
74VKaJ8j7PBA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJ8j7PBA
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ISBN
0399592717
9780399592713
DDC
720.97730904
MMS ID
991024372715302626
