Sisters Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt founded the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, which would later become Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. These Gilded Age sisters traveled ...

South Elevation, Carnegie Mansion. Record Unit 92 - Prints and Drawings, 1840-, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Opening exhibition, Design Stars Display Plan. Opening exhibition, Design Stars ...

19th-Century German Stage Design (Exhibition) (1981: New York, N.Y.) Advertising America (Exhibition) (1985-1986: New York, N.Y.) Alvar Aalto (Exhibition) (1979: New York, N.Y.) American Drawings from ...

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt museum recently handed out its 2013 National Design Awards. Intended to celebrate "design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world," the awards were first ...