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“Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial” opens tomorrow, November 2. 🏡
Featuring 25 debut commissions installed throughout the Andrew and Louise Carnegie Mansion, the exhibition illustrates the ways design is embedded in contemporary life, and considers home as an expansive framework with varying cultural and environmental contexts, and “making home” as a universal design practice. Organized in collaboration with Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (@nmaahc), the seventh iteration of Cooper Hewitt’s Triennial series will be on view through Aug. 10, 2025.
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“Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial” opens November 2, 2024.
Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, the exhibition explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design.
The participants are:
–After Oceanic Built Environments Lab and Leong Leong
–Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE)
–La Vaughn Belle
–Black Artists + Designers Guild
–Lori A. Brown, Trish Cafferky, and Dr. Yashica Robinson
–CFGNY
–Mona Chalabi and SITU Research
–Nicole Crowder and Hadiya Williams
–Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
–Heather Dewey-Hagborg
–East Jordan Middle & High Schools
–Curry J. Hackett, Wayside Studio
–Hugh Hayden, Davóne Tines, and Zack Winokur
–Hord Coplan Macht
–Terrol Dew Johnson and Aranda\Lasch
–Liam Lee and Tommy Mishima
–Lenape Center with Joe Baker
–Joiri Minaya
–Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, and Carlos Soto
–Robert Earl Paige
–PIN–UP
–Ronald Rael
–William Scott
–Amie Siegel
–Renée Stout
The exhibition is organized by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Cooper Hewitt’s curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar; Christina L. De León, Cooper Hewitt’s acting deputy director of curatorial and associate curator of Latino design; and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, curator of architecture and design at the National Museum of African American History and Culture; with curatorial assistants Sophia Gebara, Caroline O’Connell, Julie Pastor, and Isabel Strauss.
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This drawing is by Adelgunde “Gunta” Stölzl, a prolific German weaver who was instrumental in shifting the focus of the Bauhaus weaving workshops from pictorial works to industrial-ready designs, as well as the only woman at the Bauhaus to achieve the title of Young Master. Her textiles are renowned for their color, their abstract and asymmetrical compositions, and their incorporation of new materials.
Completed in 1926, the drawing is a design for a double woven cloth, using watercolor, pen, and black ink. ✍️ #TextileTuesday
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Drawing, Design for Double Woven Cloth, ca. 1926; Designed by Adelgunde (Gunta) Stölzl; Germany. This object is part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and is not currently on view.
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Frames four ways for this #MondayMoodboard. 🖼️
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1. Sidewall, Frames, 2004; Designed by Craig Wood and Chris Taylor; Manufactured by Graham & Brown Inc.; England
2. Sidewall, Country Life, 1865–70; possibly England
3. Textile, Staccato, 1951; Designed by Angelo Testa; USA
4. Sidewall, Edo, 1967; Designed by William Justema; USA
These objects are part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and are not currently on view.
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Today, we’re diving into the work of Hungarian-American designer Ilonka Karasz. A sophisticated, prolific, and mutable artist, Karasz’s graphic style evolved to suit the medium and the commission, but always retained the spirit of playfulness and a lyrical line.
After immigrating to the United States in 1913, she became an active member of the New York art scene. Karasz was known for experimenting with different methods of transferring and layering images when designing wallcoverings. She also designed furniture, created 186 covers for the New Yorker magazine, illustrated children’s books, and designed book covers.
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1. Textile, Calico Cow, 1952; Designed by Ilonka Karasz; Produced by Associated American Artists
2. Plate, 1935; Designed by Ilonka Karasz; Manufactured by Buffalo Pottery
3. Drawing, Textile Design, 1931; Designed by Ilonka Karasz; Office of Donald Deskey; Client: Lesher-Whitman & Company; USA
4. Saltcellar, 1928; Designed by Ilonka Karasz; Manufactured by Paye & Baker Manufacturing Company; USA
All objects are part of Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection and are not currently on view.
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Have you ever taken a “shelfie”? A “shelfie” is a photograph of a bookshelf in which the bookshelf’s contents reflect a portrait of the person to whom the contents belong. 📚 Join Black Artists + Designers Guild (@badguild) for an interactive workshop to think about the power of home libraries, in conjunction with their installation “The Underground Library” in “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial.” BADG will offer a verbal description of the items on various shelves in the installation to share stories about what the objects, books, and artifacts are and why they have been selected.
Then, BADG will lead you through a creative workshop to imagine and design a plan for one of your own home shelves, empowering you to archive personal histories and reveal what possibilities may exist in your own settings.
Head to our story to get your tickets! 🎟️
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A French sidewall, from us to you for #WallpaperWednesday. 💝
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Sidewall, 1928–29; Manufactured by J. Grantil Company; France. This object is part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and is not currently on view.
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“Heirlooms” (pictured here) was created by romantic cubist painter Albert John Pucci and was an early Associated American Artists textile designed released by Riverdale Fabrics in 1953, as part of the Country Fragrance collection. The design features a nostalgic assortment of antiques, from oil lamps, to porcelain figurines, to elaborately framed mirrors on a red background.🪞 #TextileTuesday
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Textile, Heirlooms, 1952; Designed by Albert John Pucci; Produced by Associated American Artists; Cotton; USA. This object is part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and is not currently on view.
Sue Thatcher Palmer’s textile “Space Walk” is a psychedelic trip through zero gravity far removed from the black and white solemnity of Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man.” Palmer’s kaleidoscopic design—the full repeat visible only once two lengths of the fabric are sewn together—features a cascade of astronauts emerging from a pulsating lunar module, their weightless, bounding movements made visible as undulating waves. Behind them, the blackness of space is depicted as a rippling curtain, an unearthly backdrop for an unearthly place. 🚀
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Textile, Space Walk, 1969; Designed by Sue Thatcher Palmer; Produced by Warner Fabrics; England. This object is part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and is not currently on view.