COLOR SOIRÉE!
Our third annual garden party
Join your fellow design lovers for an evening inspired by Cooper Hewitt’s dynamic exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color, now on view. Enjoy a strolling supper and vibrant signature cocktails in Cooper Hewitt’s Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden.
This event supports Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. For more information, please call 212.849.8340 or send us an email.
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EVENT DETAILS
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
6:30–9:00 p.m.Garden Party
7:00 p.m. Welcome Remarks
The Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
East 90th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, New York City
Attire: Be bold!
SATURATED: THE ALLURE AND SCIENCE AND COLOR
Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color reveals how designers apply the theories of the world’s greatest color thinkers to bring order and excitement to the visual world.
Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color is made possible in part by support from the August Heckscher Exhibition Fund, Judy Francis Zankel, PeclersParis, and The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
highlights
Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques (Colors and their applications to the industrial arts using chromatic circles) by Michel Eugène Chevreul, Paris: J.B. Ballière et fils, 1864; Purchase from the Margery Masinter Endowment, Smithsonian Libraries. Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution 
J.B. Schmetterling (Butterfly) Hanging Lamp, 2011; Designed by Ingo Maurer and Axel Schmid; Germany; mouth-blown glass, 3d-printed (flexible free-formed) plastic, machined brass, halogen light source; H x diam.: 46 x 32 cm (18 1/8 x 12 9/16 in.); Gift of Ingo Maurer GmbH and Graham Owen; 2014-7-1-a/c; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution 
2016 Garden Party 
Arthur Ross Garden and Terrace 
Poster, The Miller Blues Band, 1967; Designed by Victor Moscoso (Spanish, active USA, b.1936); offset lithograph on white wove paper; 50.3 x 35.8 cm (19 13/16 x 14 1/8 in.); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer; 1979-34-38; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution 
2016 Garden Party 
Tall Green Bloom Urn, 2012; Designed by Michael Eden (English, b. 1955); England; 3d-printed nylon; H x W: 41 x 18 cm (16 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2013-53-1; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Ellen McDermott © Smithsonian Institution 
The evening’s host committee
- Christine Abbate
- Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie
- Robin Klehr Avia
- Vivian Haime Barg
- Scott and Erica Belsky
- Cooper Cox and Serena Altschul
- Kelli Cross
- Laura Currie
- Beth Dickstein
- Sherri Donghia
- Eric Duchamp
- Susan Feitelberg
- Bart Friedman and Wendy Stein
- Shelby and Frederick Gans
- Stefan Golangco
- Alexandra Hahn
- Paul and Alexandra Herzan
- Barbara A. Mandel
- Grant Marani and Anne Rieselbach
- Jennifer Cohler Mason
- Richard O’Leary
- Meredith Paley
- Nicole Polletta
- Marybeth Shaw
- Leigh Shull
- Sarah Gould Steinhardt
- Esme Usdan and James Snyder
- Demetria White
