Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape, and the Ways We Communicate, As Seen Through the Collections of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Yelavich, Susan; Doyle, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0910503648 / ISBN 13: 9780910503648

Published by Cooper-Hewitt Museum of, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape, and the Ways We Communicate, As Seen Through the Collections of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
• Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum of
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910503648
• ISBN 13: 9780910503648
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The National Design Museum in New York is one of the largest repositories of design in the world, with a collection of nearly a quarter of a million objects such as typewriters, tea pots, architectural renderings, lace, wallpaper sample books and posters. This celebration of the Museum's 100th anniversary, draws on its experience of a century of collecting, documenting and studying design. It also displays thousands of the Museum's most prized exhibits. The collection is divided into four curatorial areas: applied arts and industrial design, textiles, wall coverings and drawings and prints, each overseen by a curatorial team responsible for its care, documentation and interpretation. Each section is accompanied by explanatory notes from the Museum's curatorial team.