There are only 3 private homes in America that architect Mies van der Rohe designed. All of them in Illinois. The McCormick House was originally a prototype for a group of row houses planned for development in Melrose Park, Illinois. The row houses were never built but the McCormick house in Elmhurst, a suburb of Chicago, became home to first the McCormicks and later to Ray and Mary Fick who left it basically unchanged. When the house was sold in 1992 a group of people who were planning to built an art museum, purchased it and incorporated it into the museum complex.
While walking through the Art Museum/McCormick House we came upon this table and chairs. I knew the chairs are called "tulip chairs" and were designed in the 60's. What I didn't know was that it was the first one legged chair, designed by...
...Eero Saarinen, the same architect that was responsible for the arch in St. Louis!
The McCormick House is located next to a very nice park called Wilder Park in Elmhurst, Chicago and definitely worth a visit!
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