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Planetary: collecting and preserving code as a living object
Sebastian Chan & Aaron CopeSoftware and source code, "Planetary", 2011. Bloom Studio. C++ and Objective-C source files. Gift of Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden, Jesper Andersen, and Robert Hodgin....
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Popeye the Sailor
Gregory HerringshawWallpaper: Popeye. Machine-printed by The Joliet Wallpaper Mills, 1938-40. Gift of Scott Cazet,1999-38-1.This children’s wallpaper illustrates characters from Thimble Theatre. Along...
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Lace in Fashion: Chantilly
Kimberly RandallHead covering, mid-19th century, Gift of Mrs. Rufus King, 1957-120-10.In the mid-nineteenth century, a style of bobbin lace commonly known as Chantilly achieved a great popularity that...
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Grasset's Nymph
Caroline H. O'ConnellDrawing: Design for a Brooch, ca. 1900. Designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset. Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Henry B. du Pont. 1954-41-1.Graceful, swirling arcs envelop a...
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Something Borrowed and Something Blue
Carly LewisTextile. Manufactured by Ollive and Talwin; Bromley Hall. Middlesex, England 1760-80. Cotton. Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund. 1960-55-1England enjoyed imported indigo dye from...
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An Ultra Modern Luxury Studio
Rebecca GrossDrawing: George C. and Eleanor Hutton Rand Apartment: Design for a Bedroom with Giant Wall Clock, Donald Deskey, ca. 1934. Gift of Donald Deskey. 1975-11-11For many of us residing in New...
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A Richly Fabled Romance
Erin GillisPoster: Jazz Willisau: The Ellery Eskelin Trio, 2007. Designed by Niklaus Troxler. Gift of Niklaus Troxler, 2009-3-8.The marriage between art and music has always been a richly fabled...
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Industrial Espionage
Susan BrownSample book: Genuine Turkey Red. England, 19th century. Cotton samples, leather binding. Gift of Harvey Smith, 1967-20-35Turkey red refers to a brilliant scarlet dye for cotton, or more...
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A Way With Wood
Cynthia TropeConsole. Designed and made by George Nakashima (American, 1905-1990), New Hope, PA, 1958. Gift of Natalie Epstein, 2006-18-1a/h.When I first saw this console by the Japanese-American...
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Weaving the Old With the New
Tyrel HolstonCurtain trial for Rodef Shalom, San Rafael, California, designed by Trude Guermonprez, c. 1963-64, Gift of Mr. Eric and Mrs. Sylvia ElsesserWeaver, refugee, designer, poet, teacher,...
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Petticoats in the Navy
Rebecca GrossPoster: “Gee, I wish I were a man, I’d join the Navy,” after 1917. Designed by Howard Chandler Christy. Gift of Unknown donor. 1980-32-1170.When 20-year old Bernice Smith Tongate walked...
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A Whole Lot of Pattern Going On
Gregory HerringshawSidewall. France, 1928. Produced by J. Grantil Company. Gift of Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz, 2010-31-105.Historically, wallpapers were rarely designed to be used alone, and wallpapers...
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Fans of Art Nouveau
Lucy CommonerFolding Fan, France, ca. 1901, Leaf of silk net with applied lace and steel spangles; sticks of tortoiseshell embedded with steel spangles, ebony slips. Gift of Mrs. Max Farrand,...
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Clean and Beautiful: Sanitary Wallpapers
Gregory HerringshawWallpaper frieze: The Oritani. Designed by Alfred Egli, produced by William Campbell wall Paper Company, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1905-1910. Gift of Paul F. Franco, 1938-50-14-a,bThe...
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A Sewing Machine in Miniature
Cynthia TropeSewing machine miniature. Silver. Italy, mid-19th century. Gift of Anonymous Donor in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg, 1938-6-1The craft of sewing is over 20,000 years old. The first...
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A Heart in the Right Place
Tiffany LambertPoster: I [Heart] NY More Than Ever, 2001. Designed by Milton Glaser. Gift of Milton Glaser. 2009-27-1.It is difficult to imagine that something as ubiquitous as the I Love New York logo...
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Alphabet
Ellen LuptonTextile sample: Alphabet. Designed by Alexander Hayden Girard, manufactured by Herman Miller Inc. United States, 1960. Gift of Alexander H. Girard, 1969-165-164When do graphic design and...
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Tools for Easier Living
Rebecca GrossDrawing: Design for “Highlight / Pinch” Flatware, February 20, 1948. Designed by Russel Wright for John Hull Cutlery Corporation. 1976-15-9.For craftsman and industrial designer Russel...
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Happy Birthday Ettore
Gregory HerringshawSidewall: Arabia Felix. Designed by Ettore Sottsass, produced by Rasch & Company. Screen-printed on vinyl. Gift of Gebr. Rasch GmbH & Co., 1995-163-18.Arabia Felix was quite...
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The Scent of Vinegar
Kira Eng-WilmotTextile fragment. Italy, 14th century. Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. 1902-1-284-a/dWhile the primary goal of a conservator continues to be the documentation and preservation or...
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