Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise "Loja" Gesellius(March 15, 1879 – April 21, 1968) was a Finnish-American textile artist and sculptor. She 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.[1][2][3]
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bringing her to the attention of Eliel Saarinen, the Cranbrook Academy of Art President. Eliel and LojaSaarinen practically adopted Knoll; she spent summers...
entire Booth family lived at Cranbrook, and Saarinen involved his entire family as well. His wife LojaSaarinen would lead the Weaving and Fiber Department...
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of Art and ran the weaving workshop at the facility established by LojaSaarinen from Finland who only employed weavers from Sweden. Considered to be...
family friend Eliel Saarinen to work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; she began teaching there in 1937. In 1942, when LojaSaarinen retired, Strengell...
Architecture, and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan. He was a guest lecturer...
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