The Miller House and Garden Collection includes correspondence, drawings and blueprints, textile samples, and photographs that document design, construction, and maintenance of the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana. — Indianapolis Museum of Art
In May 2012, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Indianapolis Museum of Art a grant for its project “Documenting Modern Living: Digitizing the Miller House and Garden Collection.” This Tumblr includes archival information giving an intimate view into the working relationship between the clients and designers involved in one of America's most significant modernist houses. The Tumblr has just recently gone live; bookmark it to see updates on all 23,000 pieces in the archive.
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The correspondence is so fun to read - I wish we still wrote letters with that kind of etiquette!
"shall expect the oriental fat lady and will dispose of her best as we can"
hahaha... what?
@donna this have anything to do with your new(ish) job?
Nam, only in that it is happening at my institution of employ. But if I'm lucky and well-behaved I might be able to see some of the archive personally.
miesian, I know. That line cracked me up, it's so bizarre!
how fun! missed this. i'll have to bookmark so i can keep checking in.
girard's whole letter reads like a bit of surrealist poetry.
Today's update shows a letter from J. Irwin Miller speculating how the work at the construction site can start to move faster, including adorable little sketches of how he imagines the contractors behaving on site.
Some things in our profession never change!
Now featuring gifs! I can get lost in this tumblr for hours.
Only old people write like that today. Sigh.
Saarinen's stamp is up today. http://digitizingmillerhouseandgarden.tumblr.com/
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