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Posted 04.05.12 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Placement & Corine Vermeulen: Living with Mies: The Towers at Lafayette Park

Gabrielle, Lafayette Towers (East)

“The set-up is always like this. Always! I don’t touch it. I eat at my office.”

[Portrait by Corine Vermeulen; view by Lana Cavar]

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ABOUT THE ESSAY

Living with Mies: The Towers at Lafayette Park
On Places, photographer Corine Vermeulen and the design collective Placement offer a glimpse of life in Lafayette Park, the Mies van der Rohe-designed residential complex in Detroit.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Placement is a transient, site-specific project by graphic designers Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani.
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