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Alden B. Dow Home and Studio 2021 Summer Camps
Due to the ever-changing Covid-19 situation, we are currently limiting our camps to 9 campers. If conditions improve allowing us to enroll more campers per camp, we will open up more registration. Thank you for your patience and we hope to see your campers in 2021!...
2021 Movie Sundays presented by The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio as Live Zoom Events
UPDATE: The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio will present Movie Sundays as live Zoom events. Movie dates and times will remain as previously scheduled. Live narration along with an intermission and plenty of time for questions and answers will add to the fun of...
The World of Interiors: Alden B. Dow’s Gambolling Den
We are delighted to share with you The World of Interiors feature on the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio from their December issue. It was a pleasure to work with the entire team that included writer Meghan McEwen, photographer Anne Schlechter, and Managing Editor...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Marshall M. Fredericks
One of the most prolific sculptors of the 20th century, Marshall M. Fredericks is known in America and abroad for his monumental figurative sculpture, public memorials and fountains, portraits, and animal figures. He was born of Scandinavian descent in Illinois and...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Yvonne Bannelier Lagier
Yvonne Bannelier Lagier met Alden and Vada Dow when they were among the charter members of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in the spring of 1933. Ms. Lagier was an academically-trained artist in her native France and a multi-faceted painter, sculptor,...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Gertrud and Otto Natzler
Alden B. Dow made his debut as a young architect on the international stage when he was awarded the Grand Prize in residential architecture at the 1937 Paris Exposition for his designs of the John Whitman residence and his own studio. Architecture was just one of...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Buckminster Fuller
It’s difficult to know for certain when Alden B. Dow and Buckminster Fuller first connected, but it must have been well before the letter Fuller sent to Mr. Dow in December 1951. In it he thanked Mr. Dow for his generous pledge of $1000 toward the production of his...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Peters “Pat” Oppermann
Alden B. Dow and his friend Peters “Pat” Oppermann possessed many of the same personal qualities: an inquisitive mind, a love of travel, an appreciation of music, an innate creativity, and a joyful, playful sense of humor. Oppermann was born and raised in Saginaw,...
Alden B. Dow Home & Studio Holiday Tours
December 1st-31st Alden and Vada Dow made Christmas a joyous and playful, family celebration. This December experience the beauty and fun of their zooming scale trains, playful mechanical toys, shimmering Christmas tree decorations, joyous holiday music and the...
Connections – Hans Knoll and Florence Schust Knoll Bassett.
Our Connections Exhibit is such a wonderful way to learn about people who Alden and Vada Dow interacted with on personal and professional levels. The first section of the exhibit unveiled is interactions between the Dows and Hans Knoll and Florence Schust Knoll...
Connections: Alden and Vada Dow and Hans and Florence Knoll Bassett
Born to a baker and orphaned at age 12, Florence Schust grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She demonstrated an early interest in architecture and was enrolled at the Kingswood School for Girls, adjacent to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan....
Connections Exhibit
It has always been inspiring to learn about the passions and interests Alden B. Dow and Vada B. Dow explored throughout their lives. As inquisitive humans, their passion to learn, grow and understand the world around them only increased with time. This need to...