domestic life
Cooper-Hewitt: House Proud - Revealing InteriorsAs documents of domestic life, the watercolors featured in House Proud celebrate nineteenth-century interiors and the designers that conceived of them. Cooper-Hewitt invites contemporary designers Hermes Mallea, Carey Maloney, Mitchell Owen, and Thomas Jayne to join exhibition curator Gail Davidson for a roundtable discussion on residential interior design, historic restorations, design promotion, and the role of the interior space as a source of pride, convenience, personal status, and presentation then and now. Participants Hermes Mallea, M (Group) Carey Maloney, M (Group) House Proud, Exhibition, interiors, 19th century, watercolors, Thaw Collection, Hermes Mallea, Carey Maloney, Mitchell Owen, Thomas Jayne, Designer, gail davidson, curator, residential interior design, historic renovation, design promotion, interior space, domestic life, panel, talk, long, public program |
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Now I Lay Me Down to Eat: A Salute to the Unknown Art of LivingThis exhibition is an exercise in observation, exploring attitudes toward everyday domestic manners by filling the museum with familiar objects relating to such subjects as bathing, sitting, sleeping, eating, and cleansing. Settings from The Last Supper to Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion bathroom are explored. Organized by Bernard Rudofsky, the Museum's scholar-in-residence. domestic life, exhibitions |
