He talks about this 4th of July speech he is preparing to give, and he presents it to the head of King’s College.”Īlexander Hamilton’s sketch for his garden.

“It’s five years before was shot in a duel. “My favorite is the only existing letter from Philip, son, to his father, in which he calls him ‘dear papa.’ They bond over this piece of writing Philip has done-Philip at the time is still in school,” Korins explained. There is also a group of letters of correspondence between Hamilton and Eliza’s sister, Angelica Schuyler. Korins, however, was drawn to a letter from Hamilton’s son, Philip. “We refer to his garden so much in the show-it’s just beautiful to think about.”Ī large number of the letters are written by Hamilton to Eliza, before and after their marriage. The last line of the sketch is, ‘will be arranged thus.’ As a designer, I was really struck, personally, by a man sitting down and making a thumbnail sketch,” Korins said. “But here is a tiny, personal design that he made. “He designed a lot of things-namely, our financial system…the electoral system,” Korins laughed. “It’s this beautiful little sketch that he made.” “I feel particularly close to this one in which Hamilton designs the personal garden for his home,” Korins told the Observer. Courtesy Sotheby'sĪ few documents in particular stood out for Korins.

The abstract American flag David Korins created for the installation. So, you could find the escalator and know what way up and down, with this abstract version of an American flag,” he told us. I did that by adjoining all the floors of the building by this central sculpture. “I tried to make it so that people could meander and get lost, but feel okay. Korins organized the collections using a color-coding system, by lot.

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