Hasta La Ideas

A few weeks back, this writer was traveling through western Michigan and perhaps the highlight of the trip was passing by one of the Herman Miller factories. Not that there was anything to see — it was just a building with a sign out front — but there’s something exciting about being so close to all that fancy product design and assembly. What’s more, this is the second time we’ve done this — the first being in Atlanta last year, when we also passed by one of their offices (this writer’s wife’s response to both instances of said excitement was a halfhearted “That’s nice”). For those of you who share our odd enthusiasm, or for you normals who just enjoy their products on a purely wholesome level, you’ll be keen to know that the company will be hitting the road soon. Or, rather, the local Muskegon Museum of Art, will be heading out on tour soon with their collection of Herman Miller artifacts and history lessons, with “Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller.” It will feature illustrations, early sketches, and photographs, and will be displaying a number of items on loan from The Henry Ford Museum that have never been exhibited before. “Good Design” has just opened in Muskegon and will run there until early November, after which the museum will begin its first traveling exhibition, hitting as many as 15 cities over the next four years. We’re thinking another trip up to western Michigan is definitely in the cards soon, but if you aren’t in close proximity, here’s the list of the other museums the exhibit will stop at that have already been booked:

After the exhibition’s Muskegon run, it will head to the Goldstein Museum of Design in St. Paul, Minn., and then to Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Chester said. Other locations already scheduled include: San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wis.; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.; and Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn.

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