Sunday marked the last day of the exhibition Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America at Cranbrook Art Museum. This means that Monday saw the start of the museum staff’s busiest time—the five weeks in which we take down one exhibition and put up another. Dismantling Michigan Modern is difficult; we need to say goodbye to objects we love and figure out the difficult process of getting them out the door. And if there is one object in the entire exhibition that typifies the emotional drama of letting go as well as the physical challenge of moving giant historical artifacts, it is the Model T chassis.
Model T Chassis, The Henry Ford. On view in Michigan Modern at Cranbrook Art Museum. September 2013, Shell Hensleigh/Cranbrook Art Museum.
Cranbrook Kitchen Sink 