Design
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Katherine and Michael McCoy Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1995-01
Abstract
Katherine and Michael McCoy were instructors and co-chairs of the Cranbrook Academy of Art Design Department from 1971 to 1994. Michael McCoy, born on September 16, 1944, is an award winning American industrial designer and educator. Katherine McCoy (nee Braden), born October 12, 1945, is an award winning American graphic designer, educator, and design consultant. In 1972 Katherine and Michael founded the design studio McCoy & McCoy Associates where their clients included Knoll...
Dates:
circa 1971-1995; Majority of material found within 1972 - 1995
Edward and Ruth Adler Schnee Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-06
Abstract
Ruth Adler Schnee (1923- ) is an internationally recognized award-winning fabric designer, interior designer, entrepreneur, and founding-figure of contemporary textile design in the United States. Her family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Detroit, Michigan where Ruth attended Cass Technical High School ('1942). A Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate, she met and married Edward Schnee in 1948, and together they owned and operated Adler/Schnee, a design and...
Dates:
1828 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1942 - 2009
Science fiction film props, "Negative Earth"
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_32_12
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
Student Poses with Boot on Stack of Wood Beams
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_70_15_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Students Build House Frame at University of Illinois Chicago, with Skyscrapers in Background
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_72_18_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Students in Coats Assemble the Air House Outdoors with Chicago Highrises Behind Them
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_71_08_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Superchair and "Meet the Designer" article
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_48_11
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-01
Abstract
Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...
Dates:
1900 - 1983
Tension rod Living Structure at 158 E. 38th Street, with editorial marking
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_66_35_05
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
The Liberating Cube article copy, collaged to center Isaacs
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_52_56_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12