Edith Farnsworth House

Main x24

Gingerbread House — Design Inspiration

Our Main x24 gingerbread house draws its inspiration from The Edith Farnsworth House, widely celebrated as a modernist masterpiece designed in the late 1940s and completed in 1951 by world-renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies, famous for the design philosophy “Less is more,” created a home that embodies visual simplicity while achieving extraordinary technical sophistication

Though serene in appearance, the Farnsworth House is a complex orchestration of steel, glass, and travertine, seamlessly merging the indoors with the surrounding landscape. Every line and connection is intentional, stripping architecture to its purest essence and blurring the boundary between shelter and nature.

Nestled along the Fox River in Plano, Illinois, just outside Chicago, the house is now owned and operated as a museum by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Next year will mark its 75th anniversary, a fitting moment to honor its influence on architectural design and minimalist expression.

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