Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape & the Ways We Communicate, as Seen Through the Collections of Cooper-Hewitt Natio

Yelavich, Susan; Stephen Doyle (editor); Drenttel Doyle Partners (design)

ISBN 10: 0910503648 / ISBN 13: 9780910503648

Published by Cooper Hewitt Museum / Rizzoli International Pub., New York, 1997

About this Item

Large format paperback. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with magnificent color photographs depicting everyday technologies from shoes, hair-brushes and flatware to architectural design and transportation. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 013832

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape & the Ways We Communicate, as Seen Through the Collections of Cooper-Hewitt Natio
• Publisher: Cooper Hewitt Museum / Rizzoli International Pub., New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910503648
• ISBN 13: 9780910503648
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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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.