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three chairs
If you take a tour of the Farnsworth House, you get to use these three chairs and the one bench while you take your shoes off before you go inside.
The Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
photographed 6.26.2018
from the river side
My dad was a civil engineer, with a specialty in wastewater treatment. I can recall quite a few times on vacations when we’d take a detour from the regular route in order to check on a new wastewater-treatment facility. It was interesting. (Ha! Ha! No it wasn’t. But you know what it was? Smelly, usually.)
Anyway, time goes on, as it does, and the detours-based-on-profession now involve architecture, which is nicer to look at (usually) and much less fragrant (always). And that’s why on our recent trip to Chicago we took a two-hour drive from the city to go look at this house. It’s famous. And so is the architect.
The house is adjacent to (and sometimes, depending on flood conditions, in) the Fox River; this is the river-facing side.
The Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
photographed 6.26.2018
Pasticcini
Really? How would you ever decide?
(I couldn’t, so I had gelato instead.)
Eataly Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.25.2018
Back Corner
I once had a bad experience at a grocery store that we can just call “Whole Foods”* – I got in trouble for taking photos, which I thought was a joke at first but which as it turned out was most certainly NOT a joke. Those “Whole Foods” people aren’t fooling around.
But here at Eataly, no one care that I was taking pictures of, well, everything. Even shopping baskets stacked up in the hallway to the restroom.
Eataly Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.25.2018
Table near the kitchen
I understand that maybe some people would object to being seated near the kitchen.
But those people would miss the chance to fill up the evening with stealth-shooting the kitchen door and the way the light ebbed and flowed and the staff moved in practiced fashion.
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.24.2018
