Past Exhibitions

Explore a selection of designs and publications related to past exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Book cover with blue and pink fields above and below a black and white photograph of a seated figure wearing a vest and hat with an illustrated cartoonish paper mask. Title in alternating orange and yellow serif letters at top

Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Made by Rain Book; black cover with a few small splashes of white and smaller off-white booklet layered over, with the title in blue [traveling concept #1 booklet]

Made by Rain Book

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Book cover with white yellow red blue and black rectangular fields bordered by thick black lines with silver metallic sticker near top right with title information

Blue book cover with diagonal white lines around white title information and a black and white photograph of a modern chair design

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Spread of five media pieces, a pink spiral bound book titled "government in plain sight" a white and red illustrated book called "what the cell?" a DVD with the same title, a yellow book with an illustration titled "Field Guide to Federalism" and a white book with red white and blue illustrations titled "The Deciders"

CUP Classics Box Set for Educators

A series of colorful foldout posters on Public Policy.

Making Policy Public Posters Box Set

Purple book cover with architectural schematics in the bottom right and lower left corners. Title printed in white sans serif letters rotated ninety degrees to the right and repeated in upper left and bottom right corners

Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis

White book cover with architectural rendering and the title in a black rectilinear font

Alejandro Aravena: Elemental

Book cover with black and white photograph of two figures one with their arm around the other and a gilded numeral 'one' with scalloped bulbous edges

The Haas Brothers

Book cover with image of seemingly crumpled or warped paper with the word' beauty' printed in several places and iridescent patches in the letters and subtitle at top

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Monochrome rec bandana decorated with patterns of paisley.

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

SHOP Exclusive Cymatic Scarf

Made By Rain Scarf Small in Dark Blue, looped at the top with the ends hanging down. The material is silky, and splattered with raindrops.

Made by Rain Scarf Small

An image of two white Fend bike helmuts. One is shown in its collapsable position while the other is shown open.

Fend One Bike Helmet

On Color Scarf; a knotted Rainbow silk scarf with the appearance of spilling colors on a white background.

Gray and white reversible scarf with horizontal bands of contrasting zig zag stripes divided by single rows of parallel stitching, displayed in a loop with splayed ends.

Gray Kibiso Zig Zag Scarf

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