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 2008_NY_Cooper_Hewitt | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Despite this being a Smithsonian museum, you weren't allowed to take pictures in it. That was rather disappointing. The photos here are mostly of a demo of glassmaking by Glasslab -- a program of the Corning Museum of Glass -- that was being done in the Cooper-Hewitt yard for some reason. |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Hewitt | 14 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_Hewitt | 16 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Access | 11 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Access+Ability
Access+Ability
Now through Monday, September 3 2018
There has been a surge of design with and by people with a wide range of physical, cognitive, and sensory abilities. Fueled by advances in research, technology, and fabrication, this proliferation of functional, life-enhancing products is creating... |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Ilonka | 2 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Ilonka Karasz
Ilonka Karasz
On View Now through Monday, May 28 2018
Ilonka Karasz (American, b. Hungary, 1896–1981) is an important yet overlooked figure in 20th-century design. During her long and prolific career, she worked in a wide variety of media, producing designs for wallcoverings, textiles, carpets,... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_Irid | 17 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Iridescence
Iridescence
July 28, 2018 – October 27, 2019
2nd Floor, Teak Room
Objects ranging from ancient to the contemporary show how the optical effects of iridescence have maintained a lasting impact on design. |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Jewelry | 7 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection
Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection
Now through Monday, May 28 2018
Featuring nearly 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and rings created by seminal designers from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, Jewelry of Ideas illuminates the radical conceptual and material... |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Digital | 29 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age
Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age
Now through Monday, January 15 2018
The first U.S. major exhibition of the Dutch designer Joris Laarman and his multidisciplinary team, known for their pioneering and elegant applications of digital technologies. Working at the intersection of design, art,... |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Models | 7 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Models & Prototypes Gallery
Models & Prototypes Gallery
For the opening installation, the gallery presents the exceptional 18th- and 19th-century models of staircases and some significant architectural models donated to Cooper Hewitt by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. The models represent a range of design styles and techniques, but... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_Nature | 125 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature -- Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
Nature -- Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
May 10, 2019 – January 20, 2020
Nature addresses the ways designers are exploring sustainable production methods, identifying new ways for protecting future generations, and deepening the understanding of, and relationship with, nature. Areas of innovation... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Bathing | 6 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Bathing Beautiful
Nature by Design: Bathing Beautiful
June 8, 2019 – May 3, 2020
Nature appears throughout Cooper Hewitt’s collection of wallcoverings, which includes designs for the bathroom that beautified the appearance of this everyday domestic space. In the late 19th century, given the concerns for hygiene and... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Bot | 13 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons
Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons
June 8, 2019 – December 31, 2020
Botanical Lessons explores nature in the Smithsonian collections through thirteen botanical models on loan from the National Museum of American History, and a selection of illustrated books and periodicals from Smithsonian Libraries,... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Embroid | 33 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Embroidered and Embellished
Nature by Design: Embroidered and Embellished
March 30, 2019 – October 27, 2019
Throughout history, designers have observed nature, investigated its materials, and imitated and abstracted its patterns and shapes. A fanciful, romantic, and stylized interpretation of nature embellished men’s waistcoats... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Katagami | 25 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Katagami
Nature by Design: Katagami
March 30, 2019 – October 27, 2019
This exhibition highlights the traditional Japanese craft of katagami: paper stencils carved by master artisans for use in decorating textiles. These stencils often take nature as their subject, and are made from natural materials. Cooper... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Paisley | 16 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Paisley
Nature by Design: Paisley
April 12, 2019 – November 11, 2019
Design’s tear-drop shaped motif popularly known as paisley has persisted, and its timeline of design variations reflect a diversity of natural forms. Everything from a flowering plant with its roots attached to a slender cypress tree with... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_NBD_Plastics | 26 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Nature by Design: Plastics
Nature by Design: Plastics
June 8, 2019 – May 3, 2020
From molded tortoiseshell and vulcanized rubber to bioplastic pellets and semi-synthetic yarn, the beauty of natural plastics and design’s achievements with these pliable materials are explored in this fascinating range of objects from Cooper... |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Japonism | 11 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Passion for the exotic: Japonism
Passion for the exotic: Japonism
Now through Monday, June 18 2018
Passion for the Exotic: Japonism explores the newfound influence of Japan on Western design in the late 19th century. A closed society until 1854, Japan ended its self-imposed isolation after American Commodore Matthew C. Perry led a... |
| 2017_NY_Cooper_Vice | 19 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: The Virtue in Vice
The Virtue in Vice
Now through Sunday, March 25 2018
Master craftsmanship, luxurious materials, and sensuous forms are highlighted in an exhibition of objects designed to amplify the pleasure of their use. Design disguises what we wish to remain private, tempts us with luxuries large and small, feeds... |
| 2019_NY_Cooper_Wyss | 41 | NY -- NYC -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum -- Exhibit: Wyss Institute Selects
Wyss Institute Selects
July 12, 2019 – March 8, 2020
Wyss Institute Selects is the 18th installment in the exhibition series that invites designers, artists, architects and public figures to examine and interpret the museum’s collection. The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at... |