Designer · Finland / USA · 1909–1998
Marianne Strengell
Marianne Strengell (1909–1998) – Finnish-American textile designer, Cranbrook professor, creator of fabrics for GM Technical Center and car interiors.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1909–1998
- Country
- Finland / USA
Marianne Strengell was born in 1909 in Helsinki and died in 1998 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. In 1929, she graduated from the Central School of Industrial Design in Helsinki, and in 1936 she emigrated to the USA. From 1937, she taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where, after Loja Saarinen, she took over the direction of the textile department; her students included Jack Lenor Larsen. She designed fabrics for the GM Technical Center by Eero Saarinen, for the SOM office, and for the interiors of Ford, GM, Chrysler and AMC cars, including the “Taj Mahal” upholstery fabric for the Lincoln Continental (1959). In 1951, she advised in Japan and the Philippines. Her works are held, among others, in the collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum and V&A.
