See Gere Kavanaugh’s designs

Learn more about Gere Kavanaugh’s life and designs. Bonus video from the DEMOCRACY episode, exploring how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. PBS broadcast premiere December 11, 2020.

Archival images courtesy of Gere Kavanaugh, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, General Motors, Gruen Associates, Ellis-Sawyer, George Garrigues/George Louis, Eames Office, Richard Wurman, © Frank Gehry, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2017.M.66), © the Estate of Ruth Asawa, courtesy of Ruth Asawa and David Zwirner, © Marvin Rand Estate, Jennifer Cheung, Lisa Romerein. Special thanks to Louise Sandhaus and Nora Wolin.