Designing Cranbrook: The Saarinens’ Eclectic Vision

In 1925, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth, the founders of Cranbrook, invited Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen to begin transforming their country estate into an ambitious campus of educational, artistic, and scientific inquiry. The endeavor was a collaborative project shaped by the Saarinen family, including sculptor and textile artist Loja Saarinen and their children, Pipsan and […]