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Frank Lloyd Wright’s most stunning Prairie statement boldly rises from a tight and narrow
Chicago lot. Yet Mies van der Rohe’s ground-breaking inspiration for the steel and glass
modern city is a house deep in quiet prairie farmland some 60 miles west of Chicago.
On this day-long excursion, Off the Map invites you to intimately explore two of the greatest
homes of the 20th Century by two of the 20th Century’s greatest architects.
After I meet you at your hotel, we’ll drive to Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1909 Robie House and
witness inside and out the revolutionary modernism that influenced a young Mies van der
Rohe then working in Berlin.
Then it’s off into the rich farmland to discover on a private, personal visit the spectacular
weekend home Mies designed in the late 1940s for Dr Edith Farnsworth.
We’ll head east back to the city in time to perhaps stop for a glass of wine or, if you prefer,
a coffee. On the way to your hotel, we’ll catch a glimpse of some of Mies’ urban masterpieces
glowing in the light of early evening. |
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