(Whew! When I first read this it was on microfilm at the AAA, and I could not believe my eyes. Aline wrote in a birthday letter to her future husband: The General Motors job was all and more than anyone had written about it: A shining aluminum dome covered the circular space in which Styling tested and displayed GM cars a shining 50-foot stainless steel water tower marked GM’s place in the sky above the flat suburban landscape. The long sides of the three-story buildings housing Engineering and Research, Service, Process Development and Styling were greenish glass curtain walls, still something new the short walls were bright glazed brick, yellow, orange, two reds, two blues, olive, gray and black. Aline was first swept off her feet by the buildings, 25 of them spread out over 320 acres around a huge rectangular pool. ![]() A little over a year later she would become Aline B. She was to write a profile of Saarinen for the New York Times Magazine, eventually published on April 23 as “ Now Saarinen the Son” with the byline Aline B. ![]() Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution When Aline met Eero in January 1953, she was the associate art editor and critic for the New York Times, recently divorced, and on a trip to Detroit to meet the young architect whose General Motors Technical Center had proved to be such a smashing success. Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1857-1972.
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