EXPLORE THE GENIUS OF EERO SAARINEN WITH TWO EXHIBITIONS AT CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM

"Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" and "Richard Knight: Photographing Saarinen" shed light on life and work of groundbreaking architect

About the Exhibitions

• Gain an unprecedented perspective on one of America's most unconventional masters of architecture with the exhibitions "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" and "Richard Knight: Photographing Saarinen," at Cranbrook Art Museum now through March 30, 2008.
• "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" is the first retrospective on the Finnish-born architect, whose furniture and buildings, including the St. Louis Gateway Arch and the TWA Terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, transformed 20th-century architecture and design.
• "Shaping the Future" examines the architect's wide-ranging career, which was based in Bloomfield Hills, MI, from the 1930s through the early 1960s.
• See more on "Shaping the Future" via Metromode Media. Watch the video online at this link.
• A supplemental exhibition, "Richard Knight: Photographing Saarinen," debuts on Jan. 26 and offers a rare look into the office and practice of the celebrated firm Eero Saarinen and Associates from 1957 to Saarinen's death in 1961. The exhibition closes March 22, 2008.
• Many of the images from "Photographing Saarinen" are from Knight's new book, "Saarinen's Quest: A Memoir," to be published by William Stout Publishers, San Francisco. The book will be available on January 25 in The Store at Cranbrook Art Museum for purchase.
• "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" will travel over the next two years nationally to: the National Building Museum (Washington D.C.), the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Wallace Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Washington University's Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (St. Louis), The City Museum of New York (New York City) and the Yale University Museum of Art (New Haven, CT). More info at EeroSaarinen.net.

Special Events

• Sunday, Jan. 27 from 2 to 4 p.m.
  Saarinen photographer Richard Knight will be at Cranbrook Art Museum for a panel discussion entitled "Eero Saarinen: Inside the Office." Free with museum admission. Co-sponsored by Birmingham Historical Society.
• Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
  "Friends and Colleagues: Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames and Irwin Miller" lecture. This evening of memories will feature talks by Eames Demetrios, grandson of designer Charles Eames, and Will Miller, son of philanthropist Irwin Miller, and a screening of never-before-seen footage shot by Charles Eames during his years at Cranbrook.
• March 29, 2008 at 1:30 p.m.
  "Genius in the Making: Early Designs by Eero Saarinen," offers a behind-the-scenes tour of Cranbrook's Kingswood School, designed by Cranbrook architect Eliel Saarinen, father of Eero. The building is a showcase for many of Eero's earliest works in furniture and design.

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