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Island School of Design before
receiving a master’
s degree in
design at Cranbrook.
“She fell into textile design by
chance. She designed a house
for a competition but couldn’
t
find any draperies she thought
were modern enough, so she
drew her own into the design.
A couple of architects saw those
designs and desperately wanted
them for an automotive show-
room they were building. They
offered her an advance, and she
started designing and produc-
ing herself.
”
For a time, she and her late
husband, Edward, ran a Detroit-
based business that brought her
concepts into homes and com-
mercial centers. Their store was
among the first in the country
to sell modern furniture and

fabrics.
Schnee received the Kresge
Eminent Artist Award, Woman
of Arts Lifetime Achievement
Award and American Institute
of Architects’
International
Color Award among other rec-
ognition. She is the subject of
the documentary The Radiant
Sun: Designer Ruth Adler
Schnee, which will be shown at
the museum to go along with
the exhibit.
“Design brings order to the
world by creating an aesthetic
unity of space, light, color, tex-
ture and pattern,
” Schnee has
told the JN. “
As a designer, I
never wanted to see what the
market would bear. I have tried,
instead, to find the best possible
expressions of beauty and func-
tion.
”

COURTESY CRANBROOK ARCHIVES, THE EDWARD AND RUTH ADLER SCHNEE PAPERS

Ruth Adler Schnee
working with
designs for Slits
and Slats and Pits
and Pods.
BELOW: Ruth
Adler Schnee,
Manufactured
by KnollTextiles,
Fission Chips, 2012,
polyester.

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