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This book charts the house&#8217;s original design by Mies van der Rohe and periods of neglect, flooding, and new ownership by Lord Peter Palumbo.<\/p>\n<p>Now publicly accessible and celebrating twenty years of being owned and administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this icon of modern architecture commissioned by client and patron Edith Farnsworth now gets its due. The Edith Farnsworth House is one of the most prized residences in modern architectural history, whose sometimes fraught history culminates in its publicly accessible life today.<\/p>\n<p>The book, which newly foregrounds the key role of client Edith Farnsworth, is written and edited by Michelangelo Sabatino, who contributes deep expertise on modernist architecture, and includes an essay by architectural historian Dietrich Neumann, excerpts of Edith Farnsworth&#8217;s unpublished memoir, as well as interviews with Mies&#8217;s grandson Dirk Lohan, and the house&#8217;s second owner, Lord Peter Palumbo. 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