The dark and awkward previous space has been transformed into four appealing floors of state-of-the-art galleries that feature many hands-on aspects that stress accessibility. Located a few blocks from the Guggenheim, the Neue Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and housed in the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion that was built between 18, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum collects and displays design and decorative arts from over the last 3000 years. Restored, renovated and expanded, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, elegantly reopened at its location on East 91st in New York City on December 12, 2014.
And when they succeed, the exhibitions at the museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache. New York’s Cooper-Hewitt attempts to set the exhibit bar very high. The best design exhibitions rise above these limitations. The worst shows somehow take on the air of furniture showrooms or, for displays of more technical pieces, the exhibitions look too much like pedestrian science fairs or trade shows. In some cases, design exhibitions have not caught up with the news. Design is not only fashionable and chic, but it has become mainstream.
Now corporations see the notion of good - even great design - as a goal. Over the years, the enthusiasm for design has spread. In the last half-century, objects of design (in some cases objects of desire) have been showcased with care and scholarly intensity in design museums throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.
We go to a design museum to see the best of form and function.īecause design is the intersection of art and function, aesthetics and technology, its physical grace is underscored by its utility. Photo: Matt Flynn, Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Smithsonian Design Museum.
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