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Mid-Century Textiles and Global Design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art

Mid-Century Textiles and Global Design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art

BY VISHAL KHANDELWAL

For the last leg of my dissertation research on mid-20th-century industrial design in India, I analyzed collections at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, keen to understand how the renowned textile innovator Marianne Strengell’s teaching at Cranbrook informed the work of design students Helena Perheentupa from Finland and Nelly Sethna (née Mehta) from India.

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