Objects | 105 | Rooms | Locations | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Over the years this room has been visited 1,141 times by 1,030 different objects, 29 of which are there right now.

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Oculus Rift Headset, Control Box, And Carrying Case
molded plastic, infrared-transparent fabric, led lights, glass, foam rubber,....
Gift of Robert M. Greenberg.
2017-51-10-a/h

This object was made by Oculus VR.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

RIM 950 R900M-2-PW Two-Way Pager
molded plastic, electronic components.
Gift of Robert M. Greenberg.
2017-51-5-a/c

This object was made by Research in Motion.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A rectangular lighter with a metal plated body and black-colored gridded grips in a rectangle on the lower front. Grooves in the upper metal portion show where the ignition will emerge.

Mactron F1 Cigarette Lighter
die-cast zinc, plated metal, plastic.
Gift of Robert M. Greenberg.
2017-51-12-a,b

This object was made by Braun AG.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A black molded plastic telephone with a sloping cuboid body and a black circular plastic dial in the center surrounded by white numbers 1 to 0, the letters A to Y, and the word [OPERATOR] in white capital letters, printed under the zero, all arranged in a circle around the dial, their positions correspond to fingerholes in a smaller circular clear plastic casing in the center of the black dial, which has a white circle at its center with the words [AREA CODE] in black capitals at the top. A barbell shaped black plastic telephone handset sits in a cradle on top of the body with a coiled black wire extending from the telephone handset to the body.

Model 500 Telephone
molded plastic, metal, rubber.
Transfer from Exhibitions Department.
2009-50-1-a/c

This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A black molded plastic rectangular facsimile machine with a silver control panel on its right, containing a silver knob, a red light and the manufacturer's name [Qwip] printed in black, and front opening printing area containing a roll of white paper. The machine is connected via a black cord to a rectangular acoustic coupler which has the space to hold a phone receiver and silver panels for connection.

Qwip 1200 Facsimile Transceiver And Acoustic Coupler
molded plastic, cast metal, foam, electronic components.
Gift of William W. Moore, II.
1994-56-1-a/c

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 8 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A molded plastic cream-colored base in a columnal shape with a bottom and top panel at a right angle towards the right which acts as a pivot. The base holds multiple white lithographed pvc plastic tabs with date numbes, months and days of the week printed on them in capital black lettering, these tabs pivot from the central bar

Timor Perpetual Calendar
molded abs plastic, lithographed pvc plastic.
Gift of Max and Barbara Pine.
1994-59-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 6 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Rectangular white plastic telephone with a curved handset and narrow base. The handset is made to fit snuggly into the base; both are of a similar width. The handset is propped behind the base revealing its underside. It has a push button dial at center with earpiece at top and mouthpiece at bottom. The earpiece is square with a concave circle with a circle of six small holes at center. The dial is recessed into the handset with white push buttons with black numbers one through nine, zero, pound, and star. Under each numbered button starting under number two are the letters of the alphabet in groups of three “ABC” through “WXY”. Written under the number zero is “OPER”. The mouthpiece has a small white black button and a square grid of small holes six by six. The base has two recessed areas to fit the earpiece and mouthpiece and has a black base. The base is attached to the handset with a tightly coiled white cord.

Trimline Telephone
compression-molded abs plastic, metal, electronic components.
Gift of Donald M. Genaro.
2015-43-1

This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A black molded plastic telephone with a sloping cuboid body and a black circular plastic dial in the center surrounded by white numbers 1 to 0, the letters A to Y, and the word [OPERATOR] in white capital letters, printed under the zero, all arranged in a circle around the dial, their positions correspond to fingerholes in a smaller circular clear plastic casing in the center of the black dial, which has a white circle at its center with the words [AREA CODE] in black capitals at the top. A barbell shaped black plastic telephone handset sits in a cradle on top of the body with a coiled black wire extending from the telephone handset to the body.

Model 500 Telephone
molded plastic, metal, rubber.
Transfer from Exhibitions Department.
2009-50-1-a/c

This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

The handheld iPhone is flat device with rectangular body with rounded corners made of aluminum and plastic. The front screen composed of large glass touch-screen with black bands at top and bottom, showing colorful application 'widgets' (symbols) or functions (number pad, keyboard). At the top is a vertical slit for hearing, with an on/off button on the top right of the device. Volume and ring-tone controls are on the left side, and the function control button (circular depression) is on the bottom front, beneath the screen, with a rounded square on it.

IPhone Model 2G Smartphone
plastic (abs), polycarbonate resin, stainless steel, oleophobic coated glass,....
Gift of Roland L. Trope.
2009-29-1

This object was made by Apple Inc..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

T-86 Round Thermostat
metal, plastic.
Gift of Honeywell Inc..
1994-37-1

This object was made by Honeywell, Inc..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Clock, Askew
anodized aluminum, plastic, quartz movement.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-29-1/4

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Model ET55 Calculator Calculator
abs plastic, electronic components.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-5-4

This object was made by Braun AG.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Nest Learning Thermostat Thermostat
forged stainless steel, glass, injection molded plastic, electronic components.
Gift of Nest Labs, Inc..
2013-19-2-a,b

This object was made by Nest Labs, Inc..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A black molded plastic telephone with a sloping cuboid body and a black circular plastic dial in the center surrounded by white numbers 1 to 0, the letters A to Y, and the word [OPERATOR] in white capital letters, printed under the zero, all arranged in a circle around the dial, their positions correspond to fingerholes in a smaller circular clear plastic casing in the center of the black dial, which has a white circle at its center with the words [AREA CODE] in black capitals at the top. A barbell shaped black plastic telephone handset sits in a cradle on top of the body with a coiled black wire extending from the telephone handset to the body.

Model 500 Telephone
molded plastic, metal, rubber.
Transfer from Exhibitions Department.
2009-50-1-a/c

This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

AW10 Watch
stainless steel, quartz movement, glass, leather band.
Gift of Dieter Rams.
1993-101-1

This object was made by Braun AG.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Divisumma 18 Calculator
abs plastic, melamine, rubber, metal.
Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor.
1986-99-41

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Combi DL5 Electric Razor
molded plastic, cast metal.
Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor.
1986-99-34-a,b

This object was made by Braun AG.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Calculator in a dark green metal housing with rectangular lower part and two-tier cylindrical upper part. Silver metal crank with white knob extends from the right. Front has a row of small pierced rectangles with numbers visible within. Engraved above each rectangle in gold are the numbers eight to one and thirteen to one in descending order. Above these numbers is a horizontal silver metal bar with three off white pinched knobs. Silver levers with squared white plastic knobs on left and right. Half circle cut out in front center with black plastic insert. Extending from top of insert, two short curved levers with white plastic knobs on either side of a central metal semicircle on post. At left on central cylindrical area, a short horizontal slit with a curved metal lever with a pierced circle below. To the right, engraved in gold the word Schubert over an oval. Continuing right, ten columns with the numbers one through nine in ascending order next to a vertical groove. Top rounded area also includes a row of small pierced rectangles with numbers visible within. Engraved above each rectangle in white are the numbers ten to one in descending order. Above these numbers is a short horizontal silver metal bar with two off white pinched knobs. Housing sits on a thick green metal base with circular feet. Small silver screws attach the various pieces of the housing together at edges.

DRV Pinwheel Calculator
enameled metal, molded plastic.
Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor.
1986-99-22

This object was made by Schubert.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Wristwatch with black clock face, white numbers, marks, and hands, with large silver knob and clock frame, black wrist bands with white stitching. The bold lettering on the face also includes a window for the date display and day-of-the-week indication.

Big Pilot's Watch, IW500912
ceramic face, glass, metal, calfskin band.
Lent by Robert M. Greenberg.
12.2017.28

This object was made by Santoni.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

Motorcycle, 1299 Panigale Superleggera
carbon fiber, titanium, sand-cast magnesium, aluminum rubber compound (tires).
Lent by Robert M. Greenberg.
12.2017.26

This object was made by Ducati.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in February 2018

A print cover of Wendigen magazine. On the left side is a multifaced totem pole; the rest of the cover is a meandering or 'Greek Key' pattern and in silhouette the Great Sphinx of Giza on brown aged paper.

Book, Wendingen: maandblad voor bouwen en sieren, Vol. 1, No. 2
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, N5 .W469.
89.2016.9

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A view from the right angle of a tightly woven tan wicker armchair. There are several colorful found plastic and rubber objects of discarded blue, pink and purple bottles, black tire, green flip-flop, broken baby doll parts of legs and arms woven into, and protruding from, the form.

Trans... Chair Armchair
wicker, iron, found objects (plastic, rubber).
Commissioned from the designers by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
2007-46-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 14 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Drawing (USA)
color pencil, graphite on cream wove paper.
Gift of the Estate of John De Cesare.
1982-25-65

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Poster, Voices of East Harlem/Delaney Bonnie and Friends
offset lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer.
1979-34-18

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A street scene. In the middle are a silhouetted male and female-presenting figure, with their arms around each other. The man reaches his left arm out to the shoulder of a third person, who is female-presenting. Various silhoutted objects extend from the borders of the image inward toward the couple. These inclue a streetlight that shines on to them, a trombone, a playing card, part of a 1-dollar bill, and a street sign.

Book, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
book, page 20b.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, PS3519.O2625 G6.
89.2016.4

There are 7 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Book, History of the Indian Tribes of North America

Book, History of the Indian Tribes of North America
book with lithographic plates, volume 1, p. 129..
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, E77 .M135 1838.
89.2016.1

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Four female-presenting figures are portrayed side-by-side. On the far left, one stands with her arms folded over each other in front of her, crossing at her waist, facing to the right. Next to hear is a kneeling figure with elaborate headwear, facing to the right. Next to hear is crouching figure facing to the right. On the far right is a figure standing, with her left hand holding her dress and her right hand resting on the crouching figure to her right.

Journal, Wendingen: maandblad voor bouwen en sieren, Vol. 9, No. 5
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, N5 .W469.
89.2016.3

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A printed paper cover of Wendigen magazine of characters rendered as 'Chinese Art'. The characters are gold with a white outline on a blue background. There is a aged tan edge of paper on the outer rim. Magazine is tied on the left hand side with dark string.

Book, Wendingen: maandblad voor bouwen en sieren, Vol. 4, No. 3
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, N5 .W469.
89.2016.10

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Sheet music cover. In the foreground is a derogatory depiction of an African-American male face that is crying. Two large tears appear underneath each eye. Behind the face are three white hands, all held up in a 'stop' position. Above the hands is the song's title, 'Quit Crying The Blues,' with tears eminating from the word 'blues.'

Sheet Music, Quit Cryin’ the Blues: Fox-Trot
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1356.L49 Q5 1931.
89.2016.5

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

Vertical book page featuring outline of a white oval surrounded by eight capsules on black background. The oval and surrounding shapes are filled with multicolored dots. Dots are red, orange, yellow, periwinkle, pink, white, tan, and brown. There are seven different colored dots in each of the capsules. Each capsule is slightly curved to follow the shape of the oval, three dots on the inner edge and four on the outer edge. Inside the oval, the dots form a straight line through the center and two concentric ovals. The colors of the dots in the ovals are mirrored on either side of the center line. Written in white text at top center, Figure 89 and at top right corner, PL. 38.

Sheet Music, Sugar Blues
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1630.2.W55 S84 1949.
89.2016.11

There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A cover of a music sheet titled It Happened in Monterey in blue. The sheet and text of title, artist and composter information is white, red and blue. A Jazz image of ladies in burlesque wearing red, black or blue outfits with arms outstretched, twisted toward viewer with leg bent up displaying their legs. The Jazz band on their left are in the background and two suited top hat wearing men on the right with a silhouette of a party behind them.

Sheet Music, It Happened in Monterey, for the Motion Picture King of Jazz
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1630.2.W39 I8 1930.
89.2016.12

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A black and white cover of a music sheet titled Solitude with a hovering smiling head of Duke Ellington in the center. His face is surrounded by faceless Jazz musicians. Each musician plays an instrument: piano, bass, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, and drums. There are floating notes around the musicians.

Sheet Music, Solitude
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1366.E44 S65 1934.
89.2016.13

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A cover of a music sheet titled Indianola iin blue and white. The image on the right is of a Native American man wearing a headress. His face is darkened around the eyes and sides of the face. His headresss in detailed with feathers and designs in white and light blue.

Sheet Music, Indianola
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1630.2.H46 I53 1918.
89.2016.14

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A cover of a music sheet titled Love Songs of the Nile. It is covered with shades of fuschia behind the title words and on the right hand side. On the left is a black and white cropped head shot photograph of Ramon Navarro lying above and romantically staring at his female costar from the movie The Barbarian. To the right is a sketched drawing of running horses.

Sheet Music, Love Songs of the Nile
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1508.B76 L69 1933.
89.2016.15

This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017

A cracked square eather bronzed closed purse where several spots are missing leather are grey. It is has fine sttiches on the edges with a laying flower on the top flap where the implied enclourse underneath. It is attached by black cord with a insert staburst and designed fasterner to a bronze pendant of a fish on a circular pendant.

Purse (kin-chaku) With Pendant (netsuke) And Cord Fastener (Netherlands...
stamped, silvered, and varnished dutch leather, carved ivory, enamel and brass.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1931-48-73

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Music Room (Selects Gallery) in June 2017