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2021

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2025

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Installation, Fields of Tranquility, 2021

This is a Installation. It is dated 2021. Its medium is cotton trimmings, chenille yarn, polyfill foam. It is a part of the department.

Cooper Hewitt commissioned Sahil Bagga and Sarthak Sengupta, designers in New Delhi, India, to create a tactile installation in the museum’s conservatory. Their installation uses discarded trimmings (katrans) from fabric mills, collected by local communities and spun into ropes. During lockdown in 2020, Sahil & Sarthak invented their “pom-pom” technique, using katran ropes to create furniture and textiles with a long, lush texture. Fields of Tranquility nurtures feelings of comfort and intimacy. The pieces are made by traditional weavers.

It is credited Commissioned by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics.

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