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21-601: The building houses the city administration, including the office of the Mayor of Beverly Hills and board meetings of the Beverly Hills City Council. Additionally, it houses the Municipal Gallery, an evolving art space designed by interior designer Gere Kavanaugh . Inside the building, a sculpture by Auguste Rodin called Torso of a Walking Man can be seen. In May 2013, the Beverly Hills City Council voted to add

42-503: A BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and was the third woman to receive a MFA degree from Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art . Kavanaugh worked as a stylist for General Motors primarily designing exhibitions to showcase automobiles, but also displays, created model kitchens, and interiors. She was part of the first group of women designers at GM, dubbed the "Damsels of Design" by design director Harley Earl . Her design team at GM

63-575: A new building in a new location. Thus, in 1930, land was purchased from the Pacific Electric to build the city hall. Construction lasted from 1931 to 1932. The building was designed by architects William J. Gage and Harry G. Koerner in the California Churrigueresque style, a type of Spanish Revival architecture . The building was constructed by the Herbert M. Baruch Corporation . When

84-513: A school dedicated to the English Arts and Crafts movement, where artists and craftsmen would teach students through the example of their own work. There was a strong domestic component to the movement; hand-crafted design should be part of daily life and work. Cranbrook was to be a place where artists both worked and lived. The entire Booth family lived at Cranbrook, and Saarinen involved his entire family as well. His wife Loja Saarinen would lead

105-586: A two-year course in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interactive Design, Architecture, Ceramics, Fiber, Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Print Media, or Sculpture. Described as an experiment in radical art education, each department is led by an Artist-in-Residence, who acts as mentor, advisor, and professor to the students in that department. Cranbrook is closely tied to the Arts and Crafts movement in America. In

126-716: Is surrounded by North Santa Monica Boulevard , North Rexford Drive, South Santa Monica Boulevard, and North Crescent Drive. Its main entrance is at 455 North Rexford Drive, which faces the Beverly Hills Public Library , adjacent to the Beverly Hills Police Department . A few doors below on North Rexford Drive is the Beverly Hills Fire Department, next to the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden . Behind it, on South Santa Monica Boulevard,

147-519: Is the Beverly Hills Civic Center . 34°04′22″N 118°24′02″W  /  34.0729°N 118.4005°W  / 34.0729; -118.4005 Gere Kavanaugh Gere Kavanaugh (born 1929) is an American textile , industrial , and interior designer . She is the principal of Gere Kavanaugh Designs. Gere Kavanaugh was born in 1929 and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee . She earned

168-655: Is the only surviving experiment in radical art education, having outlasted the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College . The entire campus of the Cranbrook Educational Community was designed by Eliel Saarinen in the style of the Arts and Crafts movement . Every wooden door on campus is unique, an example of gesamtkunstwerk (total design). Director of the Cranbrook Art Museum, Andrew Blauvelt , described

189-576: The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Medal in 2016. Kavanaugh lives in Angelino Heights . Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Academy of Art is the art school of the Cranbrook Educational Community , founded by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth . Located in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan, it grants MFA or MArch degrees to students who have completed

210-524: The 1920s, the Booths began developing a group of public institutions in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan . These would eventually make up the Cranbrook Educational Community . In the spring of 1925, George Booth shared his idea of an arts academy with Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen , who was teaching Booth's son, Henry Booth, at the nearby University of Michigan School of Architecture in Ann Arbor . Booth envisioned

231-610: The Beverly Hills Centennial Arts of Palm Installation, sculptor Brad Howe designed four sculptures outside the City Hall. According to The Beverly Hills Courier , it is "the largest short-term public art installation ever to be held in Beverly Hills." In the midst of the 2015 drought , the city government replaced the grass in front of the city hall with Mexican sage to reduce their water consumption. The building

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252-456: The United States and Europe. The Detroit Institute of Arts and Metropolitan Museum of Art co-authored a book detailing the works in the exhibit. The Cranbrook Academy of Art is a graduate-only school oriented around a professional, studio practice. There are no classes; instead students pursue individual creative work in their studios under the guidance of artists-in-residence. Cranbrook

273-496: The Weaving and Fiber Department, and their two children, Eero Saarinen and Pipsan Saarinen , grew up and would go on to study at the academy. In a series of letters during 1925, Booth and Saarinen planned a multi-tiered educational community comprising a church, a primary school, secondary schools for boys and girls, and an art academy. By 1931, artists and craftsmen were already living at Cranbrook, some of them having moved across

294-492: The building to its list of historical preservations. In the 1910s and 1920s, before this building was constructed, city administration services took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel . However, in 1925, a two-storey building was erected on Burton Way to serve as a city hall and fire department building. Yet five years later, a petition signed by 2,000 residents which was presented to the Beverly Hills City Council called for

315-495: The city hall opened in 1932, it was called by the Los Angeles Times the "largest and most expensive City Hall of any municipality its size in the country." The building was renovated in 1982. Additionally, it was expanded from 49,000 to 67,000 square feet. Moreover, the ground-floor reception area was renovated in 2008, when the main entrance was moved from North Crescent Drive to North Rexford Drive. The building appears in

336-669: The movie In a Lonely Place (dir. Nicholas Ray , 1950). It is also used as the police department building in Beverly Hills Cop (dir. Martin Brest , 1984). For the Beverly Hills centennial in 2014, a 15,000-slice cake in the shape of the Beverly Hills City Hall was designed by chef Donald Wressell of the Guittard Chocolate Company and decorated by Rosselle and Marina Sousa. It cost US$ 200,000 to make. As part of

357-628: The use diversity and the importance of form's relationship to function(Smith, Constance A. Damsels In Design. Schiffer PA Feb 2018). In 1960, she left GM for a position in the Detroit offices of architect Victor Gruen , known as the father of the shopping mall. There, she designed interiors of retail stores and shopping centers across the country. The firm later moved to Los Angeles where she became friends with Frank Gehry . She later shared studio space with Gehry, Don Chadwick , and Deborah Sussman where she founded Gere Kavanaugh/Designs (GK/D) in 1964. Over

378-819: The world to be there. Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was the chairman of the Art Council. Carl Milles left the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm to lead Cranbrook's Sculpture Department. After the 1930s, Modernism eclipsed the Arts and Crafts movement, but the Academy adhered to its Arts and Crafts roots. Beginning in 1983, a major exhibition of works by Cranbrook's faculty and graduates, Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925–1950 , toured major museums in

399-404: The years, Kavanaugh has designed ceramics, light fixtures, homes, store interiors, textiles, town clocks, and furniture. In the 1970s, she worked with furniture company Terra to design the “California umbrella.” Unable to patent the design, she started an alumni product archive at Cranbrook where alums could donate work which companies could reproduce and pay royalties directly to the school. She

420-452: Was noted to have created the set for the 1958 Feminine automotive show. Using net-like material to create three cages filled with live canaries, who sang when the lights were on, she also created a centerpiece in the middle which resembled a dress. Colored cellophane beneathe the cages floors enhanced the dream-like atmosphere with reflections of rainbows on the floor. Completing the set were chiffon panels and white hyacinths. Kavanaugh advocated

441-728: Was the first interior designer to win a COLA grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Her work was included in the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980 exhibit. Kavanaugh also designed a research room and typeface for the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum . She was awarded the Julia Morgan Icon Award at the Los Angeles Design Festival in 2014. She also received

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