# @gettymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-4kngHsYl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229690-gettymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-11-24T17:52:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Interior inspo from 1953. What do you think? Tell us in the comments.

These are photographs of the Miller House and Garden, located in Columbus, Indiana. Eero Saarinen was the architect, and Alexander Girard designed the interior spaces. This division of labor, by itself, was a novel approach that became synonymous with modern living.

What makes this design modern?
✔️an open layout
✔️a sunken pit in the living room
✔️a seemingly continuous couch
✔️glass and steel walls
✔️floor to ceiling window panels
✔️blocks of gridded skylights

These all signal a departure from traditional architecture. The spaces are meant to be expansive and bright. Note how the red "conversation pit" contrasts with the white living quarters. Girard was really ahead of the times.

The house was constructed for modern architecture fans J. Irwin and Xenia Simmons Miller, and later donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

This building received a grant through the Getty Foundation in 2019 as part of Getty's Keeping It Modern initiative. We help fund conservation efforts of modern architecture around the world.

Read more about the other grantees from that year at the #linkinbio.
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🏷: #architecture #design #millerhouseandgarden #modernarchitecture #interiordesign #columbus #getty #gettyfoundation

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