Cooper Hewitt Postcards

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A pastel-colored horizontal postcard with a white border features an imaginary underwater seascape with pale green water, a cream-colored sky, rocky bottom with clams, coral, starfish and aquatic plants, and swimming schools of fish.

Postcard Sea Beauties

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a highly detailed, White Rhino replica, with a prominent horn and mottled gray hide. The rhino faces forward, its hooves firmly planted in an empty gray environment. It is lit from above and casts a shadow.

Postcard The Substitute

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a daytime exterior view of a contemporary building with a vertical yellow tower, horizontal passageway in rainbow colors red to blue, a square black-framed glass pavilion and a lawn fronted by a street with a moving car.

Postcard Edcouch

A black robot consisting of 5 rectangular blocks and two circles for feet. Its eyes and mouth are made up of white circles. It is dislpayed against an orange backdrop of New York City to the left, and Cooper Hewitt to the right.

Postcard Trashbot

An orange armless chair in a sculptural gesture.

Postcard Tongue

A horizontal postcard with white borders features a tunic-style coat spread out flat and vertical. The short sleeve, button front coat has a navy background and is decorated with repeating circles of white cranes floating among light blue lily pads. The coats bottom section and sleeves are edged in blue, yellow and pink repeating stripes that join together in a chevron pattern.

Postcard Surcoat

Postcard of a large iridescent pitcher with a lip shaped as an upside-down leaf, a thick stem or vine as the handle, and a round base.

Postcard Leaf Pitcher

A rectangular postcard with a white border features an angular, orange-red lacquered wooden dressing table with closed, inverted triangle-shaped sides, stacked drawers, a flat top with a pull out drawer, and matching backless bench with a black rectangular cushion.

Postcard Jallot Dressing Table

Postcard of a soft blue sky as the background, the silhouettes of birds, and a white text box, in Spanish, about the tern's yearly circumlocution of the globe, in the center.

Postcard Méndez

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a paisley textile in jewel tones with a pale yellow background and rows of nature motifs and flower-filled hexagons bordering a central band of feathery-edged, teardrop-shaped paisleys.

Postcard Shawl Border

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a graphic design of a white egg within a red square with random black splatters and an off-white side panel with title and exhibition information.

Postcard Paul Rand Egg

A rectangular postcard with a white background and a vertical image of a stylized, lower case cursive “a” made from dark fibers.

Postcard Goossens A

A rectangular postcard with a white border features a horizontal rectangle filled with an image of pale, undulating folds imprinted with an overall pattern of small purple dots.

Postcard Coelicolor

A white postcard with a vertical image of a stylized, lower case cursive “g” made from auburn fibers.

Postcard Goossens G

Postcard of a set of 5 wooden chairs, each with a different illusion-like pattern covering the chair. All of which are colored cream and a natural looking, deep brown.

Postcard Laarman Maker Chairs

Postcard of a muted, cool-toned and desaturated purple kimono with a lighter shade floral pattern throughout the textile.

Postcard Kimono

Dress and Shoes made with Genetically Engineered Silk

Postcard Tranceflora

An aluminum chair with skeletal frame and solid aluminum seat and back rest.

Postcard Laarman Bone Chair

Postcard with beige colored background with a linear and drawing of a geometric, asymmetrical, two story building, in maroon colored ink

Postcard Karasz

Postcard of a cabinet constructed of only small steel rings. The structure is hallow and allows viewers to see through the holes of the rings.

Postcard Markunpoika

A silk embroidered waistcoat that features small butterflies, floral sprigs, blue dragonflies, and furry caterpillars that crawl along branches. Two pocket flaps are adorned with stag beetles at the bottom of the waistcoat.

Postcard Waistcoat

A reddish brown textured bowl with a lid, three circular handles and feet.

Postcard Furry Curry

A phallic shaped gold ceramic vase. The bottom of the vase is covered in a pink fungi like texture.

Postcard Haas Accretion Vase

A pink glazed rococo-style porcelain soup tureen with an embellished cover sits on a coordinating pink stand. Overlaying the pink background is a branch and leaf motif painted in black and platinum. The front center of the tureen features a photo transferred image of Cindy Sherman dressed as Madame de Pompadour. Two additional photo transfers are printed on either sIde of the stand.

Postcard Poisson Tureen

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a row of six, evenly spaced translucent spoons in clear or yellow, with round, textured bowls with or without a reddish coating, and easy-to-grip handles.

Postcard Sensory Spoons

Postcard of uniquely shaped chair with a pattern made up of many white, gray, and black squares (pixels), creating a gradient effect.

Postcard Laarman Pixel Chair

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a modern beige porcelain cup with straight sides, a tab-shaped handle and rows of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines scored into its surface, plus a round complimentary saucer, lower left.

Postcard Paper Porcelain

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a tiny robot in the shape of an insect standing upright. Its body is a vertical rod with two wings spanning outward from the top and another wire that appears to have a head on its end. It is perched on four tiny legs with what appears to be feet on the ends.

Postcard RoboBee

A horizontal postcard with a white border features a photograph of a child seen from the back with arms reaching out and touching a wall of dark silky fur accented with shadows and highlights.

Postcard Tactile Orchestra