Eero Saarinen, hopelessly unromantic

My friend Gina recently linked to this marvelous collection of illustrated letters, which I marked for future reference. When I finally went to look at it just now, I was bowled over by the presence of a love note (I guess you’d call it) — on office stationery — from Eero Saarinen. Complete with slanty writing and a 3D heart. All my illusions would be officially shattered were it not for the fact that the note is almost distressingly unromantic and the heart is offset by a sketch of the Michigan Music School. Between that and the repeated misspelling of WOR[K]ED, it’s somehow endeared him to me further.

Saarinen