“Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection celebrates the recent gift from the renowned collector to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The exhibition, co-curated by Ursula Ilse-Neuman and Cooper Hewitt, features 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets and rings, and traces radical developments in jewelry from the mid-20th century… Read More
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is the first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste in design during the exhilarating years of the 1920s. The exhibition examines a broad spectrum of design showing the multidimensional aspect of American style in this decade. Through… Read More
Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection features more than 100 extraordinary examples of luxury cigarette and vanity cases, compacts, clocks and other objects. The collection, personal gifts from Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933–2003) to his wife, Catherine… Read More
“Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents “By the People: Designing a Better America,” the third exhibition in its series on socially responsible design. The first exhibition in the series to focus on conditions in the U.S.and its bordering countries, “By the People” will explore the… Read More
“Featuring creative and alternative approaches to confronting textile industry waste, “Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse” presents the work of three designers who put sustainability at the heart of the design process. Highlighting contemporary design that embraces the tradition of using handcraft to give new life to scraps and… Read More
“Energizing the Everyday recognizes the collecting vision of Kravis and its synergy with Cooper Hewitt’s broad and diverse collection of modern and contemporary design. An early interest in records and a background in broadcasting inform Kravis’ enthusiasm for and knowledge of radios, televisions and technology.… Read More
For the new installment of the “Selects” series fashion designer Thom Browne explores ideas of reflection and individuality with a site-specific installation that includes more than 50 of the museum’s historic and contemporary mirrors and frames together with some of his personal items such as a desk, chair,… Read More
“I always believed that in order to make a really great animated film, you needed to do three things: tell a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seat, populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters, and put that compelling… Read More
“I have always been interested in the abstraction and range of techniques associated with African textiles,” Adjaye said. “This exhibition offers an exciting moment of engagement within the context of my architectural work. The textiles offer a fascinating narrative that references history, community, spirituality and… Read More
The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, with a permanent collection of more than 210,000 objects that span 30 centuries, reopened in the restored Carnegie Mansion after a three year renovation. It opened with ten inaugural exhibitions and… Read More
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