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Le Cranbrook Educational Community est un vaste campus situé en banlieue de Detroit, à Bloomfield Hills. Fondé au début du 20e siècle par le baron de la presse George Gough Booth, c’est un institut privé qui offre les classes de la maternelle à la fin du secondaire, ainsi que deux instituts spécialisés, un en arts et l’autre en sciences. Un petit musée d’art contemporain complète le tout.
L’intérêt architectural du campus est qu’il est la réalisation de l’architecte finno-américain Eliel Saarinen. Tous les bâtiments sont dans le style Arts & Crafts et Art Deco, et plusieurs sculptures du sculpteur suédois Carl Milles décorent le site amplement boisé. Nous avons aussi visité la maison dessinée par Eliel Saarinen et décorée par son épouse Loja, une tisserande de renom. L’intérieur de la maison, restaurée comme si elle était encore habitée par les Saarinen, fut le clou de notre visite à Detroit!
Ce billet conclut notre série sur notre visite à Détroit. Au plaisir de vous revoir lors de nos prochaines aventures.
The Cranbrook Educational Community is a large campus located in the suburbs of Detroit, in Bloomfield Hills. Founded in the early 20th century by baron George Gough Booth, it is a private institute that offers classes from kindergarten to high school, as well as two specialized institutes, one in arts and the other in science. A small museum of contemporary art completes the whole.
The architectural interest of the campus is that it is the realization of the Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. All buildings are in the Arts & Crafts and Art Deco style, and several sculptures by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles decorate the densely wooded site. We also visited the house designed by Eliel Saarinen and decorated by his wife Loja, a renowned weaver. The interior of the house, restored as if still inhabited by the Saarinen, was the highlight of our visit to Detroit!
This post concludes our series on our visit to Detroit. Looking forward to seeing you again on our next adventures.
Eliel Saarinen House
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Great post 😊
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed this series.
Un très beau lieu plutôt moderne bien que la photo 5 ait des petits airs de grandes écoles anglaises….Merci pour la découverte, c’est fort intéressant
Merci Marie. Un très beau campus; un endroit que nous avons beaucoup aimé découvrir.
What a fabulous place.
My mother’s maiden name was Booth……I wonder if I’m related and this could be my inheritance 😊😊
Thanks Helen. It was indeed a very nice campus and the Saarinen’s house was wonderful.
I can see why this was a highlight. I may take a drive to Michigan!
Thanks Jacqui. Detroit is truly worth a visit… if we lived in Toronto we might go back sooner. It is a bit too far from Montreal to go often!
Wonderful! Detroit has certainly been unexpectedly interesting.
Thanks Anabel. I am glad we were able to get you to discover a new place. We were certainly pleasantly surprised by Detroit.
Fascinating images! I’d never guess Detroit from any of your posts on it. 🙂 Splendid!
Thanks for your note. We were pleasantly surprised by Detroit and its surrounding areas. It was a nice visit. Glad you enjoyed the series.
What a wonderful place, wonderfully captured!
Thanks Denise. It certainly was. We were very impressed by this campus. Glad you enjoyed this series.
When the kids were younger I took them here soooo many times, including the children’s museum which is free with a library pass. Wonderful place. I always imagined the kids might go to school there, but they are now grown and enjoying life!
Thanks David & Laura. We truly enjoyed our visit to this campus. We didn’t know anything about it until our friends took us there. One of them had studied there in the late 70s and they are always happy to be back.