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An Auspicious First Decade

By the mid-1930s, the Museum at Cranbrook Academy of Art had settled into an ambitious program of presentations of both its permanent collection—which emphasized the decorative and applied arts—and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions also expanded into the remodeled Cranbrook Pavilion (now St. Dunstan’s Playhouse) on Lone Pine Road across from Christ Church Cranbrook. Ceramics by Maija Grotell were featured, as well as work by Academy faculty, including an exhibition of home furnishings designed by Eliel and Loja Saarinen, their daughter, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, and her husband, J. Robert F. Swanson.