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Cabinet, from Engineering Temporality series
This is a cabinet. It was designed by Tuomas Markunpoika.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Gallery Fumi and Tuomas Markunpoika as part of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
As a tribute to his grandmother, who suffered Alzheimer’s disease, the designer explores memory and its loss in this conceptual piece. Using a traditional wooden cabinet, Markunpoika wrapped it in rings of tubular steel and burned away the cabinet. What is left is a blackened shell, empty of any substance—a fragile ghost of its former self.
It is credited Courtesy of Tuomas Markunpoika.
- Print, Monthly Cabinet Makers Album: Wardrobe
- 1984-124-24-5
- Steel-wire bracelet Bracelet
- gold, steel wire.
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- 1992-71-2
- Pair of Armchairs Chairs
- laminated rosewood, cotton upholstery, metal.
- Gift in memory of Julia M. Halleran by her children.
- 1966-85-1-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 9 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Etagere (USA)
- rosewood, maple, glass mirror, brass.
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- 1937-45-6
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- graphite on thin cream paper.
- Gift of The Lake St. Louis Historical Society.
- 2000-69-213
- Fishing Net, Encircling Fishing Net
- polyester.
- Gift of Toray Industries, Inc..
- 2003-22-1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 175 × 95 × 50 cm (5 ft. 8 7/8 in. × 37 3/8 in. × 19 11/16 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
