Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Kingsley Radisson in Bloomfield Hills for November 9 - 11th.
The rooms are at the Cranbrook rate of $99.00. Telephone 248-644-1400 for reservations. Request a room under Code CB16 or simply request the "Cranbrook Block."
Please note that a courtesy shuttle will be available between the Kingsley Radisson and the Cranbrook .
Schedule / Registration
Patronage and Landscape Symposium
Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, MI
11.9 / Thursday Evening Gala Benefit
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Reception 6-7pm / Dinner and Keynote Address 7-10pm
Keynote speaker, Richard H. Driehaus, President, Driehaus Foundation, Chicago, IL
Event to benefit the Cranbrook Institute of Science and the Cranbrook Archives. The Cranbrook Institute of Science is Michigan's largest natural science museum and Cranbrook's most popular venue. Attendees will be invited to stroll through the Institute, designed by Eliel Saarinen and Steven Holl to showcase Cranbrook's astronomical observatory, planetarium, "Bat Zone," and impressive collections of minerals, anthropological holdings, and other study collections. The benefit will help to inaugurate the Institute's newest space, the Gateway entrance, designed by Dan Hoffman, Cranbrook's former architect-in-residence, and opened this autumn.
11.10 / Friday Symposium
DeSalle Auditorium, Cranbrook Educational Community
Registration 8:30am /
Conference from 9am - 5pm
The symposium will occur in the attractive 200-seat DeSalle Auditorium of the Cranbrook Art Museum. Designed in the 1980s by Eliel Saarinen's grandson, Robert Saarinen Swanson, the auditorium opens to galleries and a bookstore located beneath the museum's famous peristyle. Attendees will be free to roam throughout the museum and its surrounding grounds, which feature gardens, fountains, and pools decorated with sculptural works by Carl Milles, Mark di Suvero, Harry Bertoia, and Marshall Fredericks, among others.
11.11 / Saturday Tours
Cranbrook Campus Tour with Curator Mark Coir
10am - 4pm
- SOLD OUT -
Tour the gardens and grounds of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, with Bob Grese
Bus departs at 10am
Tour home and gardens from 11am - 1pm (lunch)
Bus departs at 2pm, arrives Cranbrook at 3pm
Step back into the early 20th Century era of large estate design on this tour of the gardens and grounds of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, designed for them by the noted landscape architect Jens Jensen between 1926 and 1932. Jensen historian Bob Grese from the University of Michigan will lead the tour and share insights into the various gardens. The Grosse Pointe Shores property was the fourth designed by Jensen for the Fords, and was by far the most elaborate. This project was easily Jensen's largest and most expensive private commission and exhibits many signature features from Jensen's lengthy design career. Through the generosity and foresight of Eleanor Ford, the house and gardens have been preserved for public benefit and use. For more information on the Ford House and gardens, see http://www.fordhouse.org.
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