I thought it would be easy, on a Friday afternoon in August, to hop on a tour of Saarinen House, the eclectic 1930 masterwork by Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen on the grounds of Cranbrook, ...

This year, the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research has announced a new exhibition at the campus’ Saarinen House, which served as a home and studio of the famous Finnish American designers.

Hired as a designer, Balthazar Korab captured some of the most important monuments to Modernism. In 1954, a young Hungarian went to work with Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As his then ...

It’s a home that pulls from every thread of design history, a stark contrast to the anti-history ideas about to take over architecture. Former Travel Editor It was a reactionary tower built for ...

Houses often serve as design laboratories for architects — a chance to try out ideas at a small size before using them at a larger, more public scale. It’s a lot easier to convince a single person or ...

It can't be easy following in the footsteps of Eliel Saarinen, the internationally renowned architect who gained fame for such projects as the Finnish pavilion for the 1900 World's Fair and the ...

The Saarinens of Cranbrook were an almost absurdly talented artistic family. All four -- parents Eliel and Loja, and children Pipsan and Eero-- collaborated on the design of the three remarkable, ...

There are certainly bigger homes, homes with more paintings on the walls and homes designed by architects that are more astonishing structures. But the house and furnishings Eliel Saarinen designed ...

Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his tulip chair. From the St. Louis Gateway Arch, to the ...

The modernist Hill College House dorm by Eero Saarinen features an iconic drawbridge. Flickr/University of Pennsylvania Noted Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen’s only Philadelphia-based project ...