Forget about Brangelina, let’s talk about Bries van der Rohe. According to the Internet Movie Database, movie star and architecture buff Brad Pitt raised $50,000 for Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House near Plano, Ill. Pitt was due to shoot a commercial for a Japanese jeans company and insisted Farnsworth House be used as the location, prompting the producers to pay the Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois for its use.
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