National Design Awards

Fifth Annual National Design Awards Dinner

Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Location: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
2 East 91st Street (at Fifth Avenue)

Time: 6:30 p.m.: Cocktails in the Museum's Great Hall followed by the awards presentation and dinner in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden

Leadership: Richard Meier, Chairman; Beth Rudin DeWoody, Reed Krakoff, Murray Moss, and Deedie Rose, Vice-Chairmen

Beneficiary: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Background: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's collection, which was started more than 100 years ago, has always explored ways in which design affects daily life. The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, and the repository of the largest design collection in the country-comprising more than a quarter million artifacts and works of art-the Museum brings the best of design to a wide audience. As the Smithsonian Institution's design museum, Cooper-Hewitt serves to bridge the worlds of art, science, technology, and history.

About the Awards: The National Design Awards celebrate and reward excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement in American design. All awards will be presented during a ceremony at the Museum. The awards include:

The Corporate Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Five Design Achievement Awards, including awards in architecture, environment, communications, product, and fashion design
The Design Patron Award

Tickets: Table(s) of ten at $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000
Individual tickets at $5,000, $2,500, and $1,000

For information about the National Design Awards, contact Jenny Richter at richterj@si.edu or 212.849.8304.