Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Ensemble, from Couture Collection #12, 2014

Ensemble, from Couture Collection #12, 2014
silk crepe, lamb leather.
Courtesy of Rad Hourani.
27.2015.1a/d

There are 2 images of this object.

Ensemble, from Couture Collection #12, 2014

Ensemble, from Couture Collection #12, 2014
silk crepe, lamb leather.
Courtesy of Rad Hourani.
27.2015.2a/e

This object was made by Rad Hourani.

Overlapping rectangles, made to look like collage or scraps of paper. The bottom piece is black and white photograph of clouds, on top of that is a peach-colored piece and then a black circle over a circular diagrammatic world map. The title is on a white area in black ink: DIRECTION 15 cents / october 1939, vol. 2 no.6 art, fiction, documentary material.

Magazine Cover, Direction, 1939
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1994-109-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Mist filled valleys in the central rear. Roads are shown, one of them leading to homes, right middle plane.

Drawing, Distant View over Hilltops, August 1865
graphite, oil on paperboard with orange back.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-418-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Woven textile resembling basketry, with raised, monochrome diamonds and stripes, in burnt sienna.

Textile, Djenne, 2015
70% cotton, 30% nylon.
Gift of Knoll Textiles.
2015-30-7

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Woven design of fine linear concentric squares, in brilliant turqoise blue on a dark brown ground.

Textile, Cairo, 2015
38% recycled solution-dyed nylon, 32% rayon, 30% cotton.
Gift of Knoll Textiles.
2015-30-5

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Woven pattern of fine linear concentric diamonds, in off light orange on dark copper ground. Colors created by pairing fine orange warps with heavier white or black wefts.

Textile, Meroe, 2015
40% cotton, 35% polyester, 25% nylon.
Gift of Knoll Textiles.
2015-30-3

This object was made by Knoll Textiles.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Vase
stoneware.
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis.
1968-1-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

q NK2849 .D34 1929

Book Illustration, Tapis et tissus (Carpets and fabrics), Albers à Dessau,...
color photographic reproduction.
Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
SIL39088007407448_2

Hanging, almost square, with small tassels at top and bottom. White ground with an irregular diagonal line moving from the lower left to upper right corner, with branching horizontal lines, in shades of purple, green and blue.

Hanging, Spring Thaw, 1959–60
linen, wool, goat hair.
Gift of Elizabeth Gordon.
1964-24-64

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

White-painted, circular wooden body; 12 steel spokes radiate around perimeter, end of each spoke punctuated by a wooden ball; sheet metal hands mounted in center of body; triangular form at end of black hour hand, oval form near end of black minute hand, teardrop form at end of slender, red, second hand.

Ball Wall Clock, 1949
assembled wood, painted wood, steel rods, sheet metal.
Gift of The Mel Byars Collection.
1991-26-1

This object was made by Herman Miller Clock Company and Howard Miller Clock Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

TR-620 Portable Radio, 1960
molded plastic, stamped metal, stamped and pierced sheet metal, cord.
Gift of Max Pine.
2012-17-1

This object was made by Sony Corporation.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

White foam somewhat rectangular form with flat side and rounded side.

Good Grips Prototype: Handle Form Study, 1990
carved foam.
Gift of Smart Design, Inc..
2011-50-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Sample blanket of vertical stripes of velvet woven in natural, undyed alpaca wool. Stripes are in nine different shades of black, gray, brown and off-white.

Color Blanket, Alpaca Velvet, 2009
undyed alpaca wool, cotton.
Gift of Maharam.
2009-46-2

This object was made by Maharam.
This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

First electric portable typewriter to use a "golf ball" moveable printing element. To keep width to a minimum, it has moveable carriage and fixed typing point; ball element pivots and types while staying in place.

Lexikon 82 Portable Typewriter, 1975
plastic, metal, rubber.
Gift of Ruth Culleton.
2008-25-1

This object was made by Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Panel of sheer white linen printed in brown and gray with a large-scale asymmetrical pattern of intersecting vertical and diagonal lines.

Textile, Gazebo, 1960s
linen.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1967-9-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Circular form with narrow rim. Brushed underglaze decoration of light brown field with three overlapping squares in dark brown, orange, and yellow; thin dark brown band around rim.

Plate (Germany), ca. 1930
glazed earthenware.
Gift of Torsten Bröhan.
2001-20-19

This object was made by Schramberger Majolikafabrik.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.

Textile with a single large print of a receding vista of skyscrapers in textured black, brown and white on an unbleached linen ground.

Textile, Skyline, 1958
linen.
Gift of Henry C. and Eleanor Kluck.
1985-84-6

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.