Incollect Magazine - Issue 4

Saarinen who taught design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit and trained a new generation of Americans including Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Ed Rossbach and Toshiko Takaezu. He also hired important Nordic artists as faculty, including Maija Grotell, Carl Milles and Marianne Strengell. “The central themes are the influence of immigrants and their contributions to their adopted countries, the importance of questioning cultural stereotypes and critically analyzing marketing messages to understand latent meanings, and how concerns about environmental protection and universal accessibility have been part of design discourse since at least the 1960s,” said Bobbye Tigerman, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator, Decorative Arts and Design at LACMA, who co-curated the exhibition with Monica Obniski, Curator of Design at the High Museum of Art. HAPPENINGS Issue 4 8 www.incollect.com Finn Juhl for Baker Furniture, Inc. (United States), Armchair, model 400-1/2, designed 1951, Milwaukee Art Museum, bequest of Dr. Lucille Cohn, photo © Milwaukee Art Museum, by John R. Glembin. Arabia Manufactory (Finland), Fennia vase, designed c. 1902, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Margaret and Joel F. Chen through the 2018 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee (DA ), photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Continued from page 6