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

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

Squiggly small brass object standing on its side against a white background with opening on one end for key ring attachment.

Sigma Touch Tool

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

A cloth face masks with black trim and adjustable earloops. The fabric used is an indigo color and features a detailed pattern throughout.

Cooper Hewitt Face Mask, Adire Textile

A floral print cloth face masks with black trim and adjustable ear loops. Colors included in the floral print are purple, yellow, blush, and black..

Cooper Hewitt Face Mask, Akazie

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

Plush, knitted pillow in brown and white with four small protruding chimneys at the top, with an image of the original Carnegie Mansion.

Carnegie Mansion Plush

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

Collage of Carnegie Mansion with light blue sky, and white clouds. There are 13 royal blue windows displayed against a brick red backdrop and detail brick in beige.

Carnegie Mansion Notecard

A small gold clenched fist with texturing around the wrist is attached to the curved top of a long narrow gold hair pin.

Petite Rise & Shine Fist Hairpin

Willi Smith: Street Couture Tote

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

A cloth face masks featuring a black and beige geometric design across its face.

Cooper Hewitt Face Mask, Bògòlanfini Textile

Rectangular poster with a line white border featuring a joyful caricature of a bald man wearing round glasses who has an elongated neck and is wearing a white collar-less shirt and round glasses against a yellow background. Squiggle lines encircle his head like sun-rays.

Willi Smith Print by Robert Risko

20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper

Book cover featuring an inverted color photo in pink and blue of a person lying on the ground surrounded by television sets and electronics and wires. Overlaid text at the top of the page reads: Nam June Paik.

Nam June Paik: The Future Is Now

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

Book cover featuring a collage of grainy black and white photos, including one of a rollerblading man wearing a kind of parachute, with faint cartography symbols overlaid. Black text on a white background flush to the left of the cover reads "Rauschenberg"

Robert Rauschenberg

The Art Deco Poster

The Art Deco Poster

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

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

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

A white book cover featuring cut-out letters that spell out the title of the book. An illustration of a diverse group of women, some wearing burqas, can be seen peering through the cut-out letters. There is small text, in red and black, printed at the bottom of the cover.

It's Not about the Burqa

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

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

Basketweave of gray, white and black vertical stripes on a flat woven field of subtle gray and white stripes, with a round, medium gray colored dessert plate in the upper left corner.

Heddle Placemat in Shadow

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

Quarter view of a circular, shiny, metal vessel that is very shallow with a convex center and thin walls.

Marianne Brandt Shallow Basket

Quarter view of a round, shiny, metal bowl that is slightly more shallow than half of a sphere, with a convex center and thin walls.

Marianne Brandt Tall Basket

Cover of Herbert Bayer Inspiration and Process in Design featuring a composition book style cover with black bound spine. The upper portion of the cover is bright red with white text at bottom left that reads 'HERBERT BAYER Inspiration and Process in Design'. The lower half of the book is an image of a newspaper. A cone, sphere, and cube shaped objects are placed on top of the paper along with a pencil and square set ruler.

Herbert Bayer: Inspiration and Process in Design

Book cover featuring a close up, ghostly double exposure image of two children; the image is in black and white with a green filter overlay. Of the two children, one is lying faced up with their eyes slightly open, and a bright light shinning upon their face, the other child lies beside the other with their eyes closed and head faced toward the book viewer. There is a narrow red trimming along the left edge of the book, and in yellow text towards the lower left is the book title.

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

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