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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of ...
Hewitt Sisters. Sarah Hewitt and Eleanor Hewitt, also known as the Hewitt Sisters, were American art advocates and founders of what is today the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. They are the granddaughters of Peter Cooper, an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and founder of the Cooper Union for the ...
American Institute of Architects craftsmanship medal (1947), Elsie de Wolfe Award (1948) Dorothy Wright Liebes (14 October 1897 – 20 September 1972) was an American textile designer and weaver renowned for her innovative, custom-designed modern fabrics for architects and interior designers. [1] She was known as "the mother of modern weaving".
The collection of the Neue Galerie is divided into two sections. The second floor of the museum houses works of fine art and decorative art from early twentieth-century Austria, including paintings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele and decorative objects by the artisans of the Wiener Werkstaette and their contemporaries.
The New York–style bagel is the original style of bagel available in the United States, originating from the Jewish community of New York City, and can trace its origins to the bagels made by the Ashkenazi Jews of Poland. A traditional New York-style is typically larger and fatter than a mass-produced bagel, or a wood-fired Montreal-style ...
14 January 1959. (1959-01-14) (aged 46) New York. Occupation (s) Artist, illustrator. Spouse. Dexter Masters. Christina Malman (2 December 1912 – 14 January 1959) was an artist and illustrator, best known for her work for The New Yorker magazine.
Humberto (left) and Fernando Campana speak to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2014. The Campana Brothers, consisting of Humberto Campana (born 1953) and Fernando Campana (1961–2022), [1] are Brazilian furniture designers.
Museum of Arts and Design. The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted ...