The Window Show highlights Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's mission to explore the role of design in daily life by focusing on this ubiquitous, yet rarely studied, aspect of design. The Window Show also demonstrates the breadth and scope of the Museum's unique collections.

Participating designers have selected objects from the Museum's holdings as points of departure for their windows. Each window references a work from one of the Museum's four curatorial departments--Textiles, Wallcoverings, Applied Arts and Industrial Design, and Drawings and Prints--or from its 50,000- volume Library, which houses the archives of American manufacturers and designers, including window display designers.

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