Contemporary Music in Modern Architecture
Leon Guallart ǀ Comfort: Home Tour Concerts
Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30pm
Friday, April 4, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Friday, April 4, 2025, 8:15 – 9:45pm
Parking at Cranbrook House
380 Lone Pine Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
All guests must park at Cranbrook House. Transportation to and from Smith House will be provided on a Cranbrook school bus. Buses depart promptly from Cranbrook House, 20 minutes before each concert.
Presented by Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
Hosts
Gregory Wittkopp, Director, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
Kevin Adkisson, Curator, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
Leon Guallart is an artist from Barcelona whose sound has been described as "a warm hug in the middle of a snowstorm." His current project, the Comfort: Home Tour, brings warmth and intimacy to architecturally significant spaces around the world. Guallart’s concerts at Cranbrook will bring the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Smith House to life, filling the spaces with music, storytelling, and the conviviality of friendship in the same way Sara and Melvyn Smith used the home during their lives together in this iconic 1950 Usonian house. The concert is part of the Center’s year-long celebration of Smith House’s 75th anniversary.
Tickets
$75 per person (includes a $25 tax-deductible donation to Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research)
Limited Seating / Advance Registration Required
More about the Artist and Concerts:
Born in Barcelona, Spain, and based in both Barcelona and Los Angeles, Leon Guallart is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves fluidly between music, film, and storytelling. At the age of just sixteen, he produced a web series that sold out Barcelona’s iconic Cines Girona, and his work has since been recognized at international events and festivals including the Venice TV Awards, LA Film Festival, and Chicago Indie Film Festival. He has also produced an album for Sony Music and written a full-length contemporary ballet for the Ballet Contemporani de Catalunya.
With the Comfort: Home Tour, his most personal project to date, Guallart creates spaces of warmth and refuge in response to the state of the world. His performance at Cranbrook continues this journey, bringing his music into a place long known for its devotion to art, craft, and architectural vision.
The concert at Cranbrook is part of an ongoing series that has included performances at La Pedrera by Antoni Gaudí and Ricardo Bofill’s Studio in Barcelona, Casa Pedregal by Luís Barragán in Mexico City, and the Burns House by Charles Moore in Los Angeles. The 2025 American tour will include performances at Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pennsylvania, at the Edith Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe in Illinois, and at the MIT Chapel by Eero Saarinen in Massachusetts. For more information on Leon Guallart, including music videos, please visit his website.
PARKING
All guests must park in the Cranbrook House parking lot, located at 380 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (north of Christ Church Cranbrook). Additional parking is available on the service drive that runs parallel to Lone Pine Road, south and west of the Cranbrook House parking lot.
Transportation to Smith House is provided on a Cranbrook school bus. All guests must ride on the bus; no guests will be permitted to park at Smith House. Please see “Smith House Accessibility” below for special requests. The bus will depart promptly for Smith House 20 minutes in advance of each concert. Late arrivals cannot be accommodated and will forfeit their concerts seats, without a refund.
Due to the historical status and intimate nature of Smith House, many rooms and passageways are very narrow and therefore the house is not wheelchair accessible. Seating will be provided for all concert guests. Cranbrook school buses require stepping up into the bus.
TRANSPORTATION TO SMITH HOUSE
Transportation to Smith House is provided on a Cranbrook school bus. All guests must ride on the bus; no guests will be permitted to park at Smith House. Please see “Smith House Accessibility” below for special requests. The bus will depart promptly for Smith House 20 minutes in advance of each concert. Late arrivals cannot be accommodated and will forfeit their concerts seats, without a refund.
REFUND POLICY
Tickets, including the $25 tax-deductible donation to the Center, are non-refundable. However, with advance notice, tickets may be transferred to another guest. With at least a seven-day notice, we will gladly convert the entire ticket fee to a tax-deductible donation to the Center.
SMITH HOUSE ACCESSIBILITY
Due to the historical status and intimate nature of Smith House, many rooms and passageways are very narrow and therefore the house is not wheelchair accessible. Seating will be provided for all concert guests. Cranbrook school buses require stepping up into the bus.
Guests that would like to inquire about parking at Smith House must contact the Center in advance of the concert. For questions about accessibility, please contact the Cranbrook Center at 248.645.3307 or Center@cranbrook.edu.
CHILDREN
For the safety and comfort of all visitors, children younger than eight years old, including infants and toddlers, are discouraged at the concerts. All guests, including children, require a ticket.
RESTROOMS
There are no public restroom facilities at Smith House.
CENTER CONTACT INFORMATION
For additional information on the Comfort: House Tour concerts at Smith House, please contact the Cranbrook Center at 248.645.3307 or Center@cranbrook.edu.