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Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Drawing/Illustration, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints houses more than 160,000 works of art dating from the Renaissance to the present related to the history of European and American art and design. Among the world’s foremost repositories of European and American works on paper, the collection includes designs for architecture, decorative arts, gardens, interiors, ornament, jewelry, theater, textiles, graphic and industrial design, as well as the fine arts.
Special strengths:
* a rare drawing by Michelangelo for a candelabrum
* 17th–19th-century Italian and French drawings and prints pertaining to ornament, decorative arts, and architecture
* architectural drawings by Hector Guimard, Hugh Ferris, and many others
* textile designs by the Wiener Werkstätte
* more than 400 kata-gami (stencil) patterns for textiles
* furniture designs by Frank Lloyd Wright
* industrial design drawings by Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, and more
* graphic design by Edward McKnight Kauffer, Paula Scher, and other contemporary designers
* an extensive collection of American 19th- and early 20th-century art including important drawings and prints by Frederic E. Church, Winslow Homer, Daniel Huntington, and Thomas Moran, housed in the Henry Luce Study Room for American Art
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Product Design & Decorative Arts Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s department of Product Design & Decorative Arts is home to approximately 40,000 three-dimensional objects dating from antiquity to the 21st century, which form an important and comprehensive resource for decorative art and design. International in scope, the collection contains an exceptionally diverse assortment of objects, reflecting a vast range of historical styles and design movements. Categories of objects within the collections include Ceramics, Furniture, Metalwork, Lighting, Glass, Jewelry, Architectural Elements, and Industrial Design.
Special strengths:
* Metzenburg Collection of historic cutlery
* Shapiro Collection of Soviet porcelains
* Brener Collection of matchsafes
* early 19th-century Irish cut glass
* 18th-century gilt-bronze furniture mounts from France
* a unique selection of 19th-century jewelry including works by Castellani as well as Giuliano
* Japanese tsuba (sword fittings) from the 17th to the 19th century
* designs by Peter Behrens, Walter Dorwin Teague, Christopher Dresser, Henry Dreyfuss, Charles Eames, Hector Guimard, Russel Wright, Eva Zeisel, and countless other designers
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11/22/2009
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Textiles Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Textiles collection contains more than 30,000 pieces representing an extraordinarily wide range of woven and non-woven techniques. Extending from ancient to contemporary examples, the earliest pieces in the collection are from Han Dynasty China (206 BC–AD 221).
The scope of non-woven techniques represented in the collection includes embroidery, knitting, crochet, braiding, knotting, needle and bobbin-made lace, and quilting. Printing and dyeing techniques include plate, block and roller printing, lithography, silk screen, resist dyeing (tie-dye, ikat, batik, stenciled resist), and painted textiles. The full spectrum of weaving techniques is also represented in the collection, from simple plain weave to jacquard and complex drawloom woven pattern.
Special strengths:
* woven European silks from the 13th through 18th centuries
* 18th- and early 19th-century French and English printed fabric
* nearly 1,000 embroidered samplers
* classic European laces from the 16th and 17th centuries
* a collection of costume accessories, including fans, hats, and bags from the 17th through 19th centuries
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11/22/2009
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Wallcoverings
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Wallcoverings department contains the largest and most varied collection of wallpaper in the United States, with more than 10,000 examples. Pieces date from the late 17th century through today and represent many countries of origin.
The collection includes individual wallpaper pieces, full rolls, sample books, advertisements, and printing tools that have been collected for their historic associations, as design inspiration, or as examples of printed material. They trace the transformation of the medium from hand-printed luxury product to mass-produced decor. In addition to wallpaper from France, England, the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia, the department also holds 17th-century Dutch gilded leather wallcoverings, and German wallpapers from the 1950s. Early American wallpaper and wallpaper designed by contemporary artists are growing aspects of the collection.
Special strengths:
* 20th-century American production
* 19th-century French floral compositions and hand-printed panoramic scenic wallpapers, such as Views of Italy and El Dorado
* 19th- and 20th-century American bandboxes covered in wallpaper
* Chinese hand-painted wallpapers
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Design for a Living World
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. The featured designers and places include Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China. On view will be the prototypes, drawings, and finished product created by the designers. The exhibition is co-curated by renowned graphic designer Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt. This is the debut venue in a national tour of the exhibition, organized by The Nature Conservancy.
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Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior Citizens: $10.00
Students: $10.00
Members and children under age 12: Free
Internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander will serve as the ninth guest curator of the “Selects” exhibition series in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, devoted to showing the museum’s permanent collection. Sikander will mine and interpret the museum’s collection and produce an installation of selected work. This exhibition will include a new work created by Sikander, inspired by Cooper-Hewitt’s collection. Trained as a miniaturist at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, Sikander merges the traditional South Asian art of miniature painting with contemporary forms and styles. Her work explores the relationship between the present and the past and the richness of multicultural identities.
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