Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
http://ndm.si.edu/COOPER-HEWITT
National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary designThe Museum was founded in 1897
A branch of the Smithsonian
Located in the Andrew Carnegie Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Design across the twenty-four centuries of human creativity represented by the Museums Collections (includes more than 250,000 design objects)
Collections extend from one-of-a-kind to mass-produced items in four curatorial departments: Product Design and Decorative Arts Drawings,
Prints, and Graphic Design DPG Textiles and Wallcoverings
World-Class Design Library
The Library focuses on resources that illustrate historic and contemporary pattern worldwide and how objects are designed, manufactured, marketed, and used.
Drawings Prints and Graphics
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
Rare drawing by Michelangelo for a can de la brum (A large decorative candlestick having several arms or branches)
Product Design & Decorative Arts
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
Textiles
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
Wallcoverings
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
Current Exhibitions
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006
3rd TriennialPresents the experimental designs and emerging ideasincluding animation, new media, and fashion, robotics, architecture, product, medical, and graphic design
Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift
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