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Article: The 'almost nothing' house Lord Palumbo's two-bedroom American home - a unique Modernist icon - is to be sold. Caroline McGhie talks to him
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 26, 2003
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Lord Palumbo, the former chairman of the Arts Council - who once
planned to build a glass tower next to St Paul's Cathedral - is
selling a small two-bedroom house in Illinois as "one of the seven
wonders of the modern architectural world". It is to be auctioned by
Sotheby's in New York before Christmas, with a guide price of $4.5m
to $6m, as a work of art.
The sale will mark the end of the extraordinary relationship
Palumbo has had with The Farnsworth House and its architect, Mies van
der Rohe, for most of his life. He first saw it as a schoolboy at
Eton when, aged 17, he was shown a photograph of it by his
inspirational schoolmaster Oliver van Oss. "Each Sunday he invited
the senior boys ...