Kingswood School Cranbrook Headmistress's Office Rug
Designer
Loja Saarinen
(American born Finland, 1879 - 1968)
Workshop
Studio Loja Saarinen
(American, 1928-1942)
1931
Established in 1928 and rooted in the English Arts and Crafts movement, the Cranbrook Arts and Crafts Studios produced handmade objects—furniture, silver, ironwork, prints, book bindings, and textiles—for a growing campus. Founded by philanthropists and newspaper publishers Ellen Scripps Booth and George Gough Booth, between 1922 and 1942, Cranbrook developed into an intentional community of schools, museums, and a graduate art academy.
Kevin Adkisson
Curator
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
April 2024
Width: 80 1/2 in (204.5 cm)
ProvenanceKingswood School Cranbrook (1931–1973)
Cranbrook Educational Community (1973–present)
Credit LineCranbrook Center for Collections and Research
Cultural Properties Collection, Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School - Kingswood Campus
Medium | MaterialsWool pile, wool weft, linen warp
GenreObject TypeRugs (textiles)
Alternate Title(s)
- Rug for Kingswood School Headmistress's Office
The rug was first exhibited in 1934 in a joint exhibition of the work of Loja Saarinen and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson; in 1983 exhibited in "Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950" (jointly sponsored by The Detroit Institute of Arts and The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The rug is featured in the catalog of the same name.
Select Bibliography and Archival Citation(s)"Curtains & Rugs." Kingswood School Cranbrook Inventory of Equipment and Supplies. November 1938. Series IV: Cranbrook Institutions. Cranbrook Foundation Records, 1981-05. Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Cranbrook Affiliation
- Saarinen Family
- Cranbrook Foundation Staff
KS 1931.14
