Author

Contributions

  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum - Contributor
  • J.M. Kaplan Fund - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

225,750 words, Guess

Page Count

903 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100910503745
  • ISBN-139780910503747
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014947908
  • OCLC Control Number904786685
  • OCLC Control Number879584412
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780910503747
  • Open LibraryOL27181644M

Classifications

  • DDC745.409/04
  • LCCNK1320 .C6984 2014
  • LCCT180

Alternate Titles

  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection

Description

"'Making Design' marks the transformative renovation of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and signifies an entirely new way to experience a museum and its collection. Cooper Hewitt possesses an extraordinarily diverse collection--totaling more than 210,000 objects--and is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary works from around the world, spanning thirty centuries. Designed by Irma Boom, and an object in itself, visible in the dark and in the light, the book expresses the museum's primary goal--to inspire people to see how design impacts their lives. The 1145 collection objects and fifty-four essays, drawn from new scholarship, weave parallel narratives throughout the book. Boom's visual sequences encourage looking at objects as well as making connections. This playful and unexpected jaunt through the collection embraces the user-centered experiences found on the dynamic website and in the galleries of the new Cooper Hewitt."--Back cover.

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