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Loja Saarinen started her career in 1928 when she founded one of the most productive weaving departments in the United States at the Cranbrook Educational Community. Saarinen was heavily influenced by Swedish craft tradition. She was one of the first artists to bring Scandinavian design to America.
Born Louise Gesellius, in Helsinki, Finland, Loja Saarinen is known today primarily as a weaver—a legacy that she helped to define but which mischaracterizes her many roles at Cranbrook. An artist in her own right when she married architect Eliel Saarinen in 1904, she studied at the Art School of the Finnish Academy in Helsinki ...
15 mar 2021 · March 15th, 2021. Studio Loja Saarinen’s Swedish Weavers, circa 1931. Image Credit: Courtesy Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Loja Saarinen, wife of Eliel Saarinen and mother of Eero Saarinen, also had an integral part in the early years of the Cranbrook community’s development.
Loja Saarinen (1879-1968) was a Finnish-American textile artist and sculptor who founded the weaving department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She also led her own studio, the Studio Loja Saarinen, which designed many of the textiles used in buildings designed by her husband, the architect Eliel Saarinen. Read more from Wikipedia →.
Loja Saarinen. March 16, 1879 – April 21, 1968. Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius was the fifth daughter of Hermann Otto Gesellius, a food importer, and Emilie Karoline Auguste Struckmann. Loja’s parents emigrated from Germany to Finland, and she was born in the latter’s capital city, Helsinki.
18 set 2022 · Trained in sculpture with experience in photography, model making, and design, Loja Saarinen emigrated from Finland to America in 1923 and worked alongside her husband, architect Eliel Saarinen, in the building of Cranbrook.
Loja Saarinen and Eliel Saarinen. (Designers) Rug No. 2, November 1928 - February 1929. Loja: Born Louise Gesellius, 1879, Helsinki, Finland; operated Studio Loja Saarinen at Cranbrook, 1928–1942; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Head of Department of Weaving and Textile Design, 1929–1942; died 1968, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
