Kingswood School Cranbrook Entrance Lobby Portière Panel
Designer
Loja Saarinen
(American born Finland, 1879 - 1968)
Workshop
Studio Loja Saarinen
(American, 1928-1942)
1931
The Portière Panels were designed Kingswood School Cranbrook. There were originally four panels that hung in the lobby between the dining hall and auditorium in Kingwood. This is one of the two remaining panels.
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: 46 in (116.8 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 | MaterialsSilk, linen; metallic thread
GenreObject TypePortieres
Alternate Title(s)
- Kingswood School Portiere Drape
A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen. Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School - Kingswood Campus Common Room, May 21, 2022
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 1931.12.1
