“Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home: Chicago’s Forgotten Renaissance Man”
By Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, photographs by Alexander Vertikoff
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City Files, 390 pages, $50
In a city bursting with pride over its architecture, it may defy logic that such a talent as Edgar Miller could be so overlooked, so absent from the lexicon of Chicago. This glorious book, with 400 color plates, celebrates Miller’s imagination. A mediocre Art Institute student, he found his passion in salvaged tile, found glass, recycled bricks and stones. He became a versatile artist, “Edgarizing” homes with his extraordinary touches, such as stained-glass windows, mosaics and woodcarvings. Working with documents collected over the years by Miller’s friends, and owners of the homes on which he worked, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams go a long way rescuing an astonishing Chicago talent.
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