Showing posts with label Indiana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indiana. Show all posts

You know you are in Indiana...

J. Irwin Miller house completed in 1957
Gotcha didn't I! You were thinking corn fields, Hoosiers ( the greatest sports movie ever made) and, well, dull.  I am from Indiana. I got Indiana blood which is 1/2 basketball (even if you do not give a damn about basketball), and the other is that "down to earth" mentality. There are also many jewels in Indiana including the most glorious trees, forests and this....

landscape architecture by Daniel Kiley, those are flowering magnolia trees
Be still my freakin' heart! Modern+Color=HEAVEN
Considered one of the most  important modernist homes in the country this is the historic J. Irwin Miller home in Columbus Indiana commissioned in 1953 by Industrialist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller and designed by the dream team of Finish born architect Saarinen, Interior designer Alexander Girard and landscape designer Daniel Urban Kiley.
Maybe the earliest conversation pit of our time