architecture / MILLER HOUSE by EERO SAARINEN

the house that architect EERO SAARINEN completed in 1957 for j. irwin MILLER and his family in COLUMBUS, INDIANA, easily qualifies as a paragon of residential midcentury modernism / amazingly, the glass and steel, 6,838-square-foot pavilion, with interiors by ALEXANDER GIRARD and landscaping by DANIEL KILEY, has remained intact all these years

the MILLER family gave the one-story house, the grounds, and most of the furnishings to the IMA (indianapolis museum of art) in 2009 and the property has undergone a $2 million restoration // the MILLER HOUSE will open to the public in MAY 2011

http://www.imamuseum.org/

 

so armed with an old WALLPAPER magazine #24 from DECEMBER 1999 (which features COLUMBUS, INDIANA and some of the 70 buildings and pieces of public art by internationally noted architects and artists) and my old camera, of course / i'm very excited to make my own pilgrimage to this small modernist town next month...