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.

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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

A psychedelic poster designed by Victor Moscoso for The Steve Miller Band in 1967 depicts a woman painted in day-glo orange surrounded by lines of blue and red rippling outward from her body. — 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

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