Mies van der Rohe's Fransworth House Appears in Gingerbread Form

Frank Lloyd Wright has been honored with gingerbread in the past, so it only makes sense that another of Chicago’s great architects should receive similar treatment. In case you missed it in the New York Times‘ holiday-themed T yesterday, there was a small story on cake designer April Reed, who has created an incredibly detailed gingerbread-version of Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House. It’s not cheap at all, running at over four thousand dollars, but if you have that kind of money to throw around, a portion of the sale is going to help repair the real, non-sugar-based house itself, which you’ll remember was already in the middle of a fund-raising session after

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