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Memorial to Washington
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, United States, ca. 1800. Block-printed on handmade paper. Gift of The Museum at The Fashion Institute of TechnologyThis is one of the earliest American wallpapers in the...
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A Drawing Room GPS
Sarah D. CoffinPortable equatorial sundial, Augsburg, ca 1750,Made by Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760 Gilt and engraved brass, cut and blued steel, glass Gift of the Estate of James Hazen...
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The British Are Coming to the Summer of Love
Erin GillisPoster: From England / The Who..., 1967. Designed by Bonnie MacLean. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer. 1979-34-10.June of 1967 marked the beginning of the Summer of Love in San...
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A Mass Customizable Textile Design
Carly LewisTextile: Heraaminen. Designed by Pentti Rinta, manufactured by Marimekko Oy. 1977. Gift of Marimekko, Inc, 1979-89-15Marimekko’s fashion and textile designs from the 1970s captured the free...
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A chair for all seasons
Cynthia TropeLandi chair, Hans Coray (Swiss, 1906 – 1991), Switzerland, 1939.Gift of Harry C. Sigman, 2013-21-34The Landi chair, created by the self-taught designer Hans Coray, was one of the first...
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Design for a Smoking Room
Gail S. DavidsonDrawing: Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie], ca. 1844. Léon Feuchère. Thaw Collection. 2012-5-2.In honor of the opening of Romantic Interiors, 19th Century Watercolor...
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A Mystical Advertisment
Kristina ParsonsPoster: Kanox, 1979. Designed by Tadanori Yokoo. Gift of Sara and Marc Benda. 2009-12-15.Tadanori Yokoo’s designs are the result of an effortless combination of eclectic visual motifs...
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Gregory HerringshawBorder, Germany, 1905–1915, embossed and die-cut paper, airbrushed. Gift of Mary P. Race.This piece offers a unique take on border designs. Borders with the bottom edge cut out to...
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Beauty in Form, and Color
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Beauty, 1972. Werner Berges (German, b. 1941), made by Marburg, Germany Flexograph-printed on paper. Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund, 1992-110-5Beauty is an...
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Psychedlic Promotion
Kristina ParsonsPoster: Canned Heat, 1968. Designed by Lee Conklin. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer. 1979-34-5.The Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was “ground zero” for the counterculture...
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Geometry for the Table
Michelle Everidge AndersonNapkin: Fish. Designed by Maurits Cornelius Escher ca. 1954. Linen damask. Museum purchase from Alice Baldwin Beer Memorial Fund, 1985-65-9Has there ever been a more...
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The Writing is on the Wall
Gregory HerringshawWriting on the Wall, Environment 15 sample book, 1966. Designed by Clarence Hawking, made by The Jack Denst Designs, Inc. Chicago, Illinois. Screen-printed on canvas. Gift of The...
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Before phones became gifts
Cynthia TropeTelephone dialer, United States, ca. 1960, Tiffany & Co., Gift of Henrie Jo Barth, 2012-10-1"I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!" whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a...
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Stitches in Time
Laura CamerlengoSampler. Germany, 1834. Cotton. Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer, 1981-28-277Samplers are embroideries that showcase needlework skills. The word “sampler” is derived from the Latin...
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Another Floral Wallpaper
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, Poppies. Designed by Ben Morris, made by Hubbell Pierce Wallpapers. New York, ca. 1968. Screen-printed on paper Gift of Philip Graf, 1969-53-7.Floral designs make up the...
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The Enduring Diamond Trellis Wallpaper
Gregory HerringshawSidewall, England, 1813–23. Block-printed on handmade paper. Gift of Brighton Art Gallery and Museum.I would like to talk about one of the more enduring motifs in wallpaper design,...
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Fashions in Flight
Dr. Graham TwemlowPoster: Fashion in Flight, ca. 1947. Designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer. 1963-39-132.The Object of the Day for October 3, 2013 featured one of the last...
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Historic Revivalism Meets French Art Deco
Carly LewisTextile. Designed by André Mare. 1925. Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund and through gift of various donors, 1990-128-1In design history as in art history, works are often...
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Rudolph Popping Through the Skies
Elizabeth BromanRudolph the red-nosed reindeer by Robert L. May : illustrations and pop-ups by Marion Guild. New York : Maxton Publishers, c1950. Smithsonian Libraries. qPZ8.3.M467 Ru 1950.What makes...
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Before Betty and Veronica, There Was the Gibson Girl
Shannon MurphySidewall: Bachelor's Wall Paper. Designed by Charles Dana Gibson, 1902. Gift of Philadelphia Museum of Art.One simply cannot ignore her sultry eyes, knowing smile and beauty. Bachelor’s...
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