HOUSE PARTY 2022 SPONSOR PACKAGES
A HOUSE PARTY AT CRANBROOK CELEBRATING LOJA SAARINEN
Saturday, May 21, 2022, 5:30 – 10:30pm EDT
House Party 2022 Sponsors are invited to join the Center in person for cocktails, special guests, dinner, a lively auction, and the premiere of the Center’s new film exploring the life and work of Loja Saarinen. Festivities will take place in Kingswood School, widely considered a design masterpiece of the Saarinen family. Guests will celebrate surrounded by textiles produced by Studio Loja Saarinen.
paris host committee ($2,500)
- Two Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen
- One Virtual Household Film Premiere Ticket to Share
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Printed Program, and Film Credits
$2,250 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Loja Saarinen studied sculpture at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France.
- Four Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen
- Two Virtual Household Film Premiere Tickets to Share
- Four Tickets to a Group Loja Saarinen Experience at Cranbrook
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Printed Program, and Film Credits
$4,440 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Loja Saarinen lived in Saarinen House from 1930-1951, hosting the distinguished guests of Cranbrook Academy of Art, quite literally the "who’s who” of 20th-century design.
Loja’s Muse Sponsor ($10,000)
- Four Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen
- Invitation to the Private Weaving Room Cocktail Reception for Two
- Three Virtual Household Film Premiere Tickets to Share
- Alvar Aalto iconic clear asymmetrical wave vase, designed in the 1930s by fellow Finnish designer Alvar Aalto, a friend of the Saarinen family.
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Printed Program, and Film Credits
$9,290 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Loja Saarinen’s talents extended to her design of several landscapes at Cranbrook including the Saarinen House Courtyard. In the middle of the Saarinen House Courtyard visitors find Kivi’s Muse, a sculpture by Finnish sculptor Wäino Aaltonen selected by Loja herself.
To become a Loja’s Muse Sponsor, please contact Anna Mrdeza at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu
- Six Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen
- Invitation to the Private Weaving Room Cocktail Reception for Two
- Four Virtual Household Film Premiere Tickets to Share
- Signed Loja Saarinen-inspired Cranbrook photograph by James Haefner
- Customized recognition using the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film (a menu of possibilities will be provided)
$13,715 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Room for a Lady was an exhibition featuring Loja Saarinen’s textiles that premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (1934-1935).
To become a Room for a Lady Sponsor, please contact Anna Mrdeza at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu
Golden Gate Sponsor ($25,000)
- Eight Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen
- Invitation to the Private Weaving Room Cocktail Reception for Two
- Six Virtual Household Film Premiere Tickets to Share
- Loja Saarinen-inspired unique work of art by a Cranbrook-affiliated Female Artist
- Curator-Led Private Loja Saarinen Experience at Cranbrook for Eight
- Customized recognition using the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film (a menu of possibilities will be provided)
$22,935 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Loja Saarinen was the recipient of a “High Honor” at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California (1939).
To become a Golden Gate Sponsor, please contact Anna Mrdeza at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu
- Twelve Tickets to the In-Person A House Party at Cranbrook Celebrating Loja Saarinen with exclusive private seating in the Upper Dining Hall overlooking the Kingswood Dining Hall and Auditorium for dinner and the film premiere
- Invitation to the Private Weaving Room Cocktail Reception for Four
- Eight Virtual Household Film Premiere Tickets to Share
- Loja Saarinen-inspired unique work of art by a Cranbrook-affiliated Female Artist
- Curator-Led Private Loja Saarinen Experience at Cranbrook for Twelve
- Customized recognition using the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film (a menu of possibilities will be provided)
- $10,000 of the May Queen Sponsorship donated to Cranbrook Schools for the reproduction of the Kingswood School Rose Lobby Rug
$46,760 tax-deductible as allowed by law
The Festival of the May Queen Tapestry is one of the most important textiles created by Studio Loja Saarinen. The famous tapestry was exhibited across the country before being installed with pride of place in the Kingswood Dining Hall, where it has hung for close to ninety years.
To become the House Party 2022 May Queen Sponsor, please contact Anna Mrdeza at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to maximize your support of the Center by declining certain benefits and increasing the tax-deductibility of your gift, please contact Center Director of Development Anna Mrdeza at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu or by phone at 248.645.3215. If you live out of state and would like to support the Center as a Sponsor, please contact Anna Mrdeza so she can work with you to customize your benefits.
PHOTO CREDITS
Unless otherwise noted, Photography by James Haefner.
Header: George Booth Office Carpet/Museum Rug, Studio Loja Saarinen (maker), Maja Andersson Wirde (designer), Wool pile, linen warp, 282 x 142 inches (716.3 x 360.7 centimeters), 1931; Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum.
Paris Host Committee Image: Detail of Rug with Animal Motif, Studio Loja Saarinen, 1932; Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum.
Saarinen House Patron Image: Saarinen House Dining Room, Cranbrook Academy of Art, photographed in 2017. Photography by Balthazar Korab, Courtesy of Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
Loja's Muse Sponsor Image: Aerial of Saarinen House back courtyard, Cranbrook Academy of Art, photographed in 2021.
Room for a Lady Sponsor Image: View of a "Room for a Lady" - a lady's bedroom with textiles by Loja Saarinen. This was a room designed by Eliel Saarinen for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1934 exhibition "Contemporary American Industrial Design"; Photograph by Richard G. Askew, Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
Golden Gate Sponsor Image: Cranbrook Map Tapestry, Studio Loja Saarinen (maker), Eliel Saarinen (designer), Lillian Holm (weaver), Ruth Ingvarsson (weaver); Linen warp, linen, silk and wool weft, plain weave with discontinuous wefts, 103½ x 123½ inches (262.9 x 313.7 centimeters), 1935; Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum. Photography by R. H. Hensleigh and Tim Thayer.
May Queen Sponsor Image: Kingswood Dining Hall with the Festival of the May Queen Tapestry on the far wall, 2015.
House Party Logo: Designed by Ed Ryan, CAA '22.