In October, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will address the growing global concern and need for affordable housing through a special installment of the "Solos" series. The exhibition will present a housing prototype currently under construction in China, the world's most populous country.
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In October, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present “Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpaper and Books,” an exhibition that examines the relationship between wallpapers and children’s books through works from the permanent collection and the National Design Library. On view in the second floor galleries from Oct. 3 through May 8, 2009, the exhibition will feature more than 30 wallcoverings and nearly 30 related children’s books.
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Cooper-Hewitt national design Museum, New York exhibits 19th century watercolor interiors from Thaw collection on view from August 12, 2008 to January 25, 2009.
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In winter 2008, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the exhibition “Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection.” As guest curators in the “Selects” exhibition series devoted to rotations of works from Cooper-Hewitt’s permanent collection, the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana mine the museum’s collection for works that blend unexpected media, layer varied forms and weave intricate patterns and lines.
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In March 2008, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present “Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730 – 2008,” a groundbreaking exhibition exploring the Rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and textiles.
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present “Looking Forward/Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th- and 21st-Century Design,” an exhibition showcasing additions to the permanent collection from Aug. 17 through Oct. 14.
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In fall 2007, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present "Piranesi as Designer,"Â the first museum exhibition to show Giovanni Battista Piranesi's full range and influence as a designer of architecture, interiors and furnishings.
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An exhibition named "Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer," a retrospective of German lighting designer Ingo Maurer's four decades of work, opens Sept. 14 at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and runs through Jan. 27, 2008.
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In spring 2007, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present "IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection," an exhibition organized by a team from the internationally acclaimed innovation and design firm IDEO. As the fourth guest curator in the exhibition series, IDEO mined the permanent collection and will organize works around the theme of "design thinking"-a timeless, inherently human approach to problem solving focused on improving what already exists and creating what does not exist.
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In the fifth exhibition in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, Cooper-Hewitt will present Eugene and Clare Thaw's collection of staircase models-the largest known holding of these works outside of France-which will be accessioned into the museum's permanent collection. "Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces" is the first museum exhibition in the United States focused on staircase models. The exhibition will be on view through June 3, 2007.
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The National Design Triennial is an ongoing exhibition series at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial seeks out and presents the most innovative American designs from the prior three years in a variety of fields, including product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, new technologies, animation, science, medicine and fashion.
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In May 2007, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present "Design for the Other 90%," an exhibition in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden that highlights the growing trend among designers to develop solutions that address basic needs for the vast majority of the world's population not traditionally serviced by professional designers.
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