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A Puzzling Order
Maleyne SyracuseEclat. Designed by Anni Albers for Knoll Textiles, 1975. Museum purchase through gift of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2011-41-1Anni...
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Elevating the Everyday
Andrea LippsJosephine, bedside bottle and drinking glass. Designed by POLKA, manufactured for J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH, manufactured by Boehmische Manufaktur. 2006. Museum purchase through gift of Dale...
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Transform Your Bathing Experience
Gregory HerringshawScenic wallpaper: Sea Beauties. Germany, ca. 1930. Manufactured by The P Co., Distributed by Ideal Wall Decoration. Lithograph printed. Gift of the family of Victor S. Robinson,...
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Shindigo
Matilda McQuaidSpace Panel No. 5. Designed by Hiroyuki Shindo, 1993. Gift of Sheila Hicks and Melvin Bedrick. 2009-47 Over the last fifteen years I have been fortunate enough to visit Japan a number...
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Capturing the Majesty of Niagara Falls on Wallpaper
Gregory HerringshawScenic wallpaper: Niagara Falls from Views of North America. Produced by Zuber. Rixhem, Alsace, France, designed 1834. Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Pauline...
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Knotted Chair
Cynthia TropeKnotted Chair (KC 1), Designed by Marcel Wanders, Produced by Cappellini, Netherlands, Designed 1996, Gift of Cappellini, 2008-23-1 As a member of the Dutch cooperative Droog (Dry) Design,...
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A Parure To Remember
Joanna BurgessSuite of micro-mosaic jewelry, Italy, 1800-25, gold, glass mosaics, Gift of Frederick Saal in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Saal, 1991-160-1/8For years people have bought souvenirs as...
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Views of the American War of Independence
Gregory HerringshawScenic wallpaper: Views of the American War of Independence. First produced by Zuber in 1852. Gift of Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.Views of the American War of Independence was...
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Collection Connections
Rachel SakaiA screenshot of the vital statistics for "Design for Textile-Quatrefoil, Series #625-630"As a new member of the Digital + Emerging Media team here at the Cooper-Hewitt, I've been spending a...
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A CFL bulb you want to show off
Andrea LippsPlumen 001 light bulb. Designed by Samuel Wilkinson and Hulger, manufactured by Hulger Design. 2010. Gift of manufacturer. 2011-39-1.Energy-efficient lighting technologies have seen growing...
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Birdcage In The Form Of A Church
Joanna BurgessBirdcage, mid-19th century, Mahogany, cherry, pine, stain, brass, wire, United States, 1916-19-83-a,bPlaywright Jacques Deval once wrote, “God loved the birds and made trees. Man loved...
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Effect Before Everything
Maleyne SyracuseTextile: Van Dyke Squares. Designed by Philip Johnson, ca. 1953. Gift of Arundell Clarke, 1956-150-8The design industry in the US flourished in the decade following World War II. In...
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River Glimmered
Pamela LawtonBook Cover: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1901–50. Designed by Alvin Lustig. Gift of Susan Lustig Peck. 2001-29-25.“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river… When...
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Less Ziggy, More Stardust
Caitlin CondellPoster: David Bowie 1976-84, 2010. Designed by Non-Format. Gift of Non-Format, 2012-12-4.There are many ways to celebrate an anniversary. To commemorate a decade of working together as...
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Celebrating Comfort & Personal Style
Laurel McEuenTextile: Bows. Designed by Joseph Frank, ca. 1960. Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2011-41-2Upon hearing the words modern, modernism, or modernist design, what...
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Experimental Structures
Cynthia SmithPrint: Design for the "Ten-Deck House", June 16, 1928. Architect: R. Buckmister Fuller. Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund, 1991-53-1.I read...
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Celebrating the Commercial Building
Willa GrangerDrawing: Design for a Skyscraper, 1930. Designed by Ely Jacques Kahn. Gift of Ely Jacques Kahn. 1952-15-13.Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972), a commercial architect active throughout the 1920s...
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French Revolution Wallpapers
Gregory HerringshawSidewall and border: République Française Liberté Égalité. France, ca. 1792. Woodblock print on paper. Gift of John Jay Ide Collection.This is an example of wallpaper used as...
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An emblem of Dutch diversity
Erin GillisPoster: Holländische Kunstausstellung (Dutch Art Exhibition in Krefeld), 1903. Designed by Johan Thorn Prikker. Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt, National...
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Bucolic Musings
Rachel BrillPainting: In the Hammock, 1873. By Winslow Homer. Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr. 1917-14-7.Winslow Homer’s 1873 oil painting titled, Sunlight and Shadow—In the Hammock, depicts an...
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