Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/35350853/

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18384867/

Drawing, Design for a Belt Buckle with Peacock Motif

  • Manufactured by Maison Vever
  • brush and gouache, light green watercolor, graphite on buff wove paper
  • Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
  • floral
  • royalty
  • symmetry
  • peacocks
  • craftsmen
  • stylized
  • jewelers
  • presentation drawing
  • art nouveau
  • swirls

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18384869/

Drawing, Design for a Belt Buckle with Two Fish and Seaweed

  • Designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset
  • Manufactured by Maison Vever
  • brush and watercolor and gouache; graphite on gray-green wove paper
  • Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
  • fish
  • upper class
  • jewels
  • ornamental
  • manufacturers
  • stylized
  • accessories
  • ovals
  • jewelers
  • seaweed
  • presentation drawing
  • continuous
  • art nouveau
  • fashion

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18384975/

Drawing, Design for Rear Elevation, Castel d'Orgeval, Parc Beauséjour, Paris, France

  • Designed by Hector Guimard
  • pen and black, red ink, graphite on tracing paper
  • Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard
  • architects
  • house
  • art nouveau
  • architectural drawing
  • residential

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18452337/

Brooch

  • gold, silver, diamonds
  • Gift of Anne McQuarrie Hatch

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18643737/

Chanin Building Gate

  • Designed by René Paul Chambellan
  • wrought iron, bronze
  • Gift of Marcy Chanin
  • architecture
  • art deco
  • metalwork
  • gates
  • industry
  • machine

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18643739/

Chanin Building Gate, 1928

  • Designed by René Paul Chambellan
  • wrought iron, bronze
  • Gift of Marcy Chanin
  • offices
  • art deco
  • ironwork
  • radiating
  • gears
  • coins
  • money
  • office workers
  • entry
  • iron
  • symbolism

Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

https://www-6.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18646479/

Drawing, Design for Royal Typewriter

  • Designed by Henry Dreyfuss
  • brush and gouache, pen and black ink, white chalk, graphite on cream illustration board
  • Gift of John Bruce
  • communication
  • clients
  • industrial design
  • presentation drawing
  • typewriters
  • keys
  • industrial designers