Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home

Recycled Materials
In an effort to save money and avoid waste, Miller and Sol Kogen, his partner for two of his projects, scavenged their building supplies from demolished construction sites. They pulled common bricks, copper washtubs, oak doors and beams, sheets of marble, wrought iron and even plumbing pipes from wrecking sites and refashioned them into the materials used in the units on North Wells Street and West Burton Place. Kogen's collection of tiles, above, which numbers in the tens of thousands, was stored in cubbyholes in the basement of the Carl Street Studios for decades.

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