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PRESIDENT ELIEL SAARINEN, 1932 - 1946. Born 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland; died 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen immigrated to the United States in 1923, using the acclaim and $20,000 he received for his second-place entry into the 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower Competition to relocate his family and career to America ...
Of these, Architizer has highlighted the seven Saarinen-designed homes that best reveal the stunning breadth of the family’s talent. Hvittorp, Kirkkonummi, Finland, 1901-02. Set on the bank of Lake Vitträsk, Eliel uses the change in elevation to shape the construction of this two-facade house. The authors describe the lakeside face as a ...
Jul 31, 2014 · On August 20, 1873, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born in what was then the Finnish Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. Thirty-seven years later, on the same day in 1910, Saarinen, known personally ...
Saarinen’s house is a perfect time capsule of that transition period, between the historicist Arts & Crafts and the sexy Art Deco. It’s an interior that pulls from every thread of design ...
1930. With almost every object in the home designed by a member of the Saarinen family, Saarinen House stands as a visionary total work of art built for Cranbrook Academy of Art’s president (a role filled by Eliel Saarinen from 1932 until 1946). With this house, the Finnish immigrants demonstrated their conviction that architecture exists as ...
Dec 29, 2021 · After the studio closed, Loja and Eliel continued to live in the Saarinen House until Eliel died in 1950. Loja did live there for another year, but she then moved into a house in Eero’s backyard, and the Saarinen House became the home to the college’s future presidents, some of whom made dramatic changes to the house.
The House and adjoining 40 acres of Gardens are open for tours from May through October. Special events allow for access at other times during the year. Saarinen House. Saarinen House is Eliel Saarinen's Art Deco masterwork and the jewel of Cranbrook's architectural treasures. Designed in the late 1920s and located at the heart of Cranbrook ...
