The cost overruns on the project were the stuff of a lawsuit. It is said that Mies' client fell in love with him, and then turned against him when he rejected her. Continuous visual space is the essence of the house which is four walls of glass between two poured concrete horizontal planes - the roof and the raised floor. Eight steel columns form the structure, with interior and exterior floors of Roman travertine marble. The interior is totally open except for an interior rectangular structure covered with Primavera wood, containing two bathrooms, kitchen, and service facilities.
All exterior walls are glass.
The Farnsworth House is a house built as a weekend residence for Chicago physician Edith Farnsworth. Mies submitted a plan for a severe, unadorned house almost entirely of glass and steel. His initial sketches came very soon after Edith Farnsworth's request, and there was a reason. In 1938, an advertising executive, Stanley Resor, had asked Mies to design a summer house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The house was never built, but its concept had been one Mies very much wanted to execute.