Exhibitions

Shop objects featured in and related to special exhibitions on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. From exhibition catalogs and posters to iconic objects in Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection.

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Textured blue book cover featuring a photograph of large 3D letters spelling “ACT” on a street, in front of a group of protestors holding signs. White title text overlaid reads “Designing Peace” “Building a Better Future Now.”

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

A face mask, in black and made of a synthetic material, features black elastic ear loops, a seam at the nose allowing for a close fit, and two round valves allow for improved air flow.

Airinum Urban Air Face Mask 2.0

White face mask tie dyed pale blue, with long side ties, printed with indigo floret silhouettes.

Hand-Batik Cotton Face Mask

Book cover featuring black and white photograph of a figure with a white beard top hat and long coat and gloves. Title in thin all caps black letters above

Andrew Carnegie

White cover with a centered gold rectangle containing title and publisher information bordered by six rows of 23 images associated with notable American women including portraits, clothing, banners, posters, products, publications and inventions.

Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Book cover with vertical bands of eight colors making a rainbow with the words "queer" and "design" in white fields and black sans serif letters with an x between the two fields

Rectangular book cover featuring a full length photo of two elderly men in drab suits staring blankly. Text overlaid reads: "What is Gilbert & George?"

What Is Gilbert & George

Book cover with poster detail showing arching brown and yellow fields leading to a black and white image of a figure on wheeled contraption partially obscured in the bottom right. Title above in red and light blue bold sans serif letters

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising

Contemporary Muslim Fashions Tote

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America

Pious Fashion book cover featuring a moody editorial photograph of a woman wearing luxurious textiles and head scarf, sipping a cup of tea while sitting on a counter in an amber kitchen. Minimal cover title at the upper right of the cover.

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Muslim Fashion book cover featuring a photograph of two women wearing denim and carrying large purses, one wearing a turban and one wearing a hijab, laughing as they crossing a street. Title in a blue band across the bottom of the cover.

Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures

Pink book cover with photograph of Leah Vernon standing centered in yellow pants and purple shirt.

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States

Cresent Moons and Pointed Minarets book cover featuring an illustration of four children peering up from arches in detailed Islamic architecture with a crescent moon hanging above in a purple sky.

Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes

Once Upon an Eid book cover featuring a warm illustration of two three story buildings covered in celebration decorations with people leaning out of the windows. A large crescent moon at the center of the illustration cups the title text.

Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices

Book cover featuring a photograph of a woman wearing a fencing costume. Red text overlaid reads: PROUD.

Proud: Living My American Dream

Book cover featuring illustration of mother embracing a child from behind, in front of an indoor window, beneath the night sky. Title is centered in a soft pink color.

Like the Moon Loves the Sky

Bright yellow cover with bold text "Muslim Women" through which illustrations of various muslim women shine through.

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

Nike Pro Hijab 2.0

Full length image of model wearing Nike Victory Suit.

Nike Victory Suit

Small book cover featuring a street-style photograph of a woman wearing stilettos, ripped jeans, a long coat with brocade detail, and a floral hijab. A white line border frames her. Text overlaid reads: Modest Street Fashion Vol. 1.

Modest Street Fashion

Shepard Fairey Inc. book cover featuring three layers of black and red graffiti. The title text in a gothic font at the center of the page.

Shepard Fairey Inc.: Artist/Professional/Vandal

Beige book cover with a red square bisected with a yellow triangle surrounded by a blue circle

The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory

Book cover with black and white photograph of a figure whose back is to us but twisting their head back to us. The figure is wearing a dark lip shade and a lacy dark veil. Title in orange and black font to the left

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Side view of a shiny metal sugar and creamer set. A tall creamer with a handle and a lip around the rim, and a shorter, slightly wider sugar bowl, both with rounded bases, sit on a round, shallow dish. Short metal tongs with slightly rounded sides rest in front of the dish.

Marianne Brandt, Helmut Shulze Sugar and Cream Set

Horizontal book cover with oil painting of arctic iceberg scene. Title stacked and overlaid near top left in white serif letters

The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece

Square silk scarf features blue and black vibrant patterns of sound over a white background.

SHOP Exclusive Cymatic Scarf

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 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 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 rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism