Awhile back, there was a discussion going on over at Six LDS Writers and a Frog about architecture. Why that is going on on a writer’s blog by a permablogger there who makes no connection to literature that I can see (I kid because I love), I do not know.
But I enjoyed his post and the discussion, and it sent me looking for my growing fascination with mid-century modern and, in particular, Mies van der Rohe. Farnsworth House is one of his more famous residential works.
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I can’t say as I’d like this in the winter without snow and maybe not even then, but oh heavens, in the spring, summer, and especially the fall…
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I love the lines (I’m a Frank Lloyd Wright freak, myself) but there is NO way I’d live in that. I walk around naked too much and deer are so innocent…
😀 I have too much stuff that I’m not about to give up, but it’s kind of my personal anti-pack-rat wet dream to be able to live in something like that.
Of course, in the ’60s, you didn’t have things like mp3 players and ebook readers, so you had to have a stereo system and a library, but now that is not an issue. Yay!