Farnsworth House, the glass house designed by Mies van der Rohe in Illinois, has been redecorated for an installation to feature furnishings and personal belongings of its original client Edith Farnsworth.
Edith Farnsworth's Country House is the centrepiece of an exhibition series called Edith Farnsworth Reconsidered that explores the house's namesake.
The installation marks the first time in over 50 years the all-glass residence raised above ground by pilotis is furnished with Farnsworth's original decor.

"The Farnsworth House is known around the world as Mies's 'gesamtkunstwerk' (total work of art), but that's a false history and one that largely ignores the home's namesake, Dr Edith Farnsworth," said Farnsworth House executive director Scott Mehaffey.
For the installation the Farnsworth House and the National Trust for Historic Preservation referenced old photographs of the space taken by Hedrich-Blessing, André Kertész and Werner Blaser. These date back to when Farnsworth occupied it to replicate the design of the space as it would have appeared in 1955.
Farnsworth, a celebrated research physician, commissioned Van der Rohe to design the country house completed along the Fox River, in Plano, Illinois in 1951.

While Farnsworth lived there in the 1950s to 60s the house was decorated with her preferred taste of Scandinavian and Italian furniture from designers such as Florence Knoll, Jens Risom, Bruno Mathsson and Franco Albini and with Asian antiques.

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