Making Design
This exhibition was on display from December 12, 2014 to September 01, 2016.
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- Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers), 1923
- brush and watercolor, black ink on paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
- 1988-62-805
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers), 1923
- brush and watercolor, black ink on paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
- 1988-62-806
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers), 1923
- brush and watercolor, black ink on paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
- 1988-62-807
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Fidelio
- brush and gouache, graphite on paper.
- 1988-62-371
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Fidelio
- brush and gouache on paper.
- 1988-62-372
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Fidelio
- brush and gouache on paper.
- 1988-62-373
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Fidelio
- brush and gouache on paper.
- 1988-62-374
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Purpurnelke (Purple Pink), 1924
- brush and gouache, graphite on paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
- 1988-62-893
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Hanging, Four Seasons, 1964
- linen.
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Paskow.
- 1982-9-1
- Drawing, The Ten-Deck House
- graphite on white wove paper .
- 1991-53-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Periodical, Floral design from Bijutsukai, 1902
- periodical, woodblock print.
- Gift of Robert W. Chanler 1931, Smithsonian Libraries NK8 S558 CHMRB Vol. 1.
- 6.2015.1
- Periodical, Floral and abstract designs from Bijutsukai, 1902
- periodical, woodblock print.
- Gift of Robert W. Chanler 1931, Smithsonian Libraries NK8 S558 CHMRB Vol. 2.
- 6.2015.2
- Sidewall - Sample, Courtyard Texture, 1955
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Katzenbach and Warren, Inc..
- 1956-108-4-c
- This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
- Plate 24, Compositions, Couleurs, Idées, 1930
- pochoir print.
- Smithsonian Libraries f NK1535.D34 1930.
- 6.2015.3
- Plate 7, Viva la Penna, Invento e incise questo nuovo metodo per formare un...
- engraving.
- Smithsonian Libraries Z43 .G43 1801.
- 6.2015.4
- Status Cloth (Democratic Republic of the Congo), early 20th century
- raffia.
- Gift of Alan L. Wolfe.
- 1961-115-44
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Moss Lamp, 1999
- silicone, plastic, metal.
- Gift of Marlene Meyerson.
- 2010-11-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Turret Pair Of Earrings, 1986
- oxidized sculpted bronze, bent gold wire.
- Gift of Susan M. Yecies.
- 2011-19-1-a,b
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- Egyptian Story Bangle Bracelet, 2012
- carved pockwood, cut and polished turquoises and tsavorites, oxidized silver,....
- Gift of Fiona Druckenmiller.
- 2013-27-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- Shoe Horn (England), 1604
- heat- and steam-shaped horn, with engraved and black-stained decoration.
- Gift of Barbara Munves.
- 2011-31-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- Print, Design for a Garden Parterre of Cut Grass and Colored Gravel, from...
- etching on cream laid paper.
- 1988-4-17
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Print, Title Page, from Nouveaux Livre de Parterres (New Book of Garden Beds)
- etching and engraving on white laid paper.
- 1988-4-19
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers), 1923
- brush and gouache, watercolor, black ink on paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
- 1988-62-808
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Poster, HorseMoveProjectSpace and Deveemvloer Present: Paraat 3, 2007
- offset lithograph on white wove paper.
- Gift of Michiel Schuurman.
- 2008-22-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Poster, Teatr Wielki, Charles Gounod Foust [Charles Gounod's Faust], 1964
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2009-20-30
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
![Two red wavy strings around and through twenty one circular holes. In turquoise, above: Bruno Munari; Far vedere l’aria / Die Luft sichtbar machen. Lower left: Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich / Ausstellungsstrasse 60 / 8005 Zurich[…].](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/46831_a567eada58fb061a_n.jpg "Two red wavy strings around and through twenty one circular holes. In turquoise, above: Bruno Munari; Far vedere l’aria / Die Luft sichtbar machen. Lower left: Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich / Ausstellungsstrasse 60 / 8005 Zurich[…].")
- Poster, Bruno Munari, 1995
- offset lithograph on wove paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2010-21-114
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Print, Acricola Bodenbelag (Acricola Floor Covering), plate 26, in Die...
- color lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Jerrol E. Golden.
- 1999-41-1-27
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Stencil, Ferns and Swirls, late 19th–early 20th century
- mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin....
- Gift of Helen Snyder.
- 1976-103-61
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Periodical, Vinaigre, robe de Paul Poiret (“Vinegar,” dress by Paul...
- pochoir print.
- Smithsonian Libraries. GT500 .G384.
- 6.2015.5
- Photograph, Photograph of Spiral Staircase in Robert Mallet-Stevens House,...
- Smithsonian Libraries 2000-42-1 SST 03.
- 6.2015.6
- Print, The First Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion), before 1521
- woodcut on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1944-37-1-a
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Print, The Third Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion)
- woodcut on off-white laid paper.
- 1944-37-1-b
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Textile, Anemone
- silk.
- 1958-88-14
- This object was made by Wiener Werkstätte.
- This object is part of the Textiles collection.
- Drawing, Two Elevations of the Architect's Own Studio, Wellfleet, MA, 1953–54
- pen and ink, brush and black ink, crayon on tracing paper.
- Gift of Serge Ivan Chermayeff.
- 1962-45-10
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Fork And Spoon (Germany), 1600–30
- carved coral, gilt silver.
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
- 1985-103-81,82
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
