permanent collection
Look AgainWhen the Hewitt sisters—Peter Cooper’s granddaughters—founded this museum in 1877, their hope was to make its design collections available for education and inspiration. This exhibition showcases nearly 500 new items from the permanent collection, including wallpaper, pottery, furniture, drawings, prints, jewelry, oil paintings, and decorative objects. Sponsored in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. wallpaper, pottery, furniture, drawings, prints, jewelry, oil paintings, decorative objects, permanent collection, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349835 |
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Western European EmbroideryA history of the art and technique of the actual stitches employed in embroidery is displayed and explained in this exhibition of items from the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The earliest object dates from 1425, and subsequent examples follow the development of needlework to the present time. The greatest number of objects come from monasteries, churches and palaces, and include wall hangings, table covers, samplers, pillow covers, indoor caps (for both men and women), and men’s waistcoats. embroidery, Europe, textiles, samplers, permanent collection, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349857 |
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The Shopping Bag: Portable Graphic ArtThe bandboxes and shopping bags on display from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's permanent collection reflect the development of consumer culture. Bandboxes of the 19th century, carry-alls without handles, were precursors to the shopping bags of today. The emergence of the shopping bag in the 20th century balanced the practical concerns of the consumer, the need to carry portable purchases, with the marketing interests of the store, which used the bag as a portable billboard. bandboxes, shopping bags, cardboard, paper, graphic design, ephemera, permanent collection, ch:exhibition=35350095 |
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The Cooper-Hewitt Collection: PorcelainAn inaugural exhibition of seventy-five items from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent porcelain collection. The exhibition traces the development of porcelain from the China's Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD) to eighteenth-century Europe. German, French, Italian, Austrian, and English pieces are shown along with histories of the techniques utilized by each of the factories. Porcelain, ceramics, decorative arts, permanent collection |
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TsubaThree hundred Japanese sword guards (tsuba) and decorative fittings for the Samurai sword are on view. Hand protectors and jewelry dating from the 17th century, worn by the warriors who used the swords, are also featured in this exhibition. sword guards, sword fittings, swords, Japanese, tsuba, Japan, permanent collection, exhibitions |
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The Cooper-Hewitt Collection: GlassThese pieces from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection depict innovations in glass design and fabrication through the centuries—from some of the earliest Roman-Syrian glass made in the first to the fourth centuries AD to the thin-walled glass produced by the Lobmeyr factory in Vienna in the 20th century. Glass, decorative arts, permanent collection, ch:exhibition=35350475 |
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SmithsonianThe Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum complex, with 12 museums, the National Zoo and more than 70 million objects and specimens in its collections. This exhibition brings together representative objects from each of the collections into one space. Smithsonian Institution, permanent collection, exhibitions |
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The Cooper-Hewitt Collection: FurnitureThis exhibition showcases furniture from the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Examples range from 17th-century England and 18th-century designs by Michelangelo Pergolesi to 20th-century pieces by Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, and Marcel Breuer. furniture design, furniture, craftsmanship, exhibitions, permanent collection, ch:exhibition=35349929 |
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Wallpaper from the Cooper-Hewitt CollectionThis exhibition of wallpaper designs from the permanent collection traces the development of production skills from the early seventeenth century to the present. The techniques used to print the wallpapers are carefully explained in this showing. wallpaper, wall coverings, permanent collection, ch:exhibition=35350181 |
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The Cooper-Hewitt Collection: SilverThis exhibition showcases the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s permanent historic silver collection. Featured in the exhibition are a seventeenth-century Augsburg German charger, a mid-eighteenth-century French candelabra, and three centuries of English silver—including a tea urn by Thomas Heming, the royal goldsmith to King George III. silver, silverwork, metal, decorative arts, artisans, permanent collection, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35350781 |
