On October 10, 17, and 24, 2025, Docomomo Michigan proudly partnered with MillerKnoll, one of the most influential design companies that brings together a collective of design brands, to tour the collected heart of their heritage at their corporate headquarters, the Design Yard, in Holland, Michigan.

On three separate occasions, a combined total of 55 people toured the 12,000 square foot facility and feasted their eyes on a curated collection of furniture that highlights the evolution of modern design in its newly created MillerKnoll Archives, opened in 2024. The facility features an exhibition space, open storage, and a reading room.

The tours, which began at the Hub on the main campus, were led by Amy Auscherman, director of archives and brand heritage, and assisted by collections manager Sara Wood and senior archivist Alexa Hagen. Our first stop was the Manufacturing Modern Exhibition, the inaugural exhibition curated to experience design history and highlight the work of seminal modern designers, including Herman Miller, Knoll, Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Marcel Breuer.

From there, we toured the Open Storage area, organized chronologically by decade to trace the development of modern design and featuring some of the earliest works of Florence Knoll and Herman Miller. At our third stop, The Reading Room, adjacent to Open Storage, we feasted our eyes on a trove of archival correspondence, photographs, drawings, and textiles through easily accessible flat files and shelves.

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