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This accession consists of drawings documenting the design of exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Exhibitions documented in this accession include "Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760;" "Avant-Garde Letterhead;" "Lace;" "What Could Have Been: Unbuilt Architecture of the 80s;" "Solos: Smartwrap;" "Faberge: Jeweler to Royalty;" "Art Nouveau Bing: The Paris Style 1900;" "Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office;" "Puppets: Art and Entertainment;" "Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle;" "Fashion in Colors;" "New Hotels for Global Nomads;" "Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum: Furnishing the Modern Era;" "Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939;" "Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture;" "Arches for Galveston;" "Milestones: 50 Years of Goods and Services;" "Under the Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition of Light;" "Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center;" " Walter Crane: Design for Children;" "Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living;" "Intimate World of Alexander Calder;" "Turned Wood Bowls;" "Henry Dreyfuss Directing Design: The Industrial Designer and His Work, 1929-1972;" "Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005;" "Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser;" "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now;" "National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now;" "Rooms with a View: Landscape and Wallpaper;" "Aluminum by Design: From Jewelry to Jets;" "Field for Dreams: An Eighteenth Century Bedcover;" "Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament;" "Good Offices and Beyond;" "Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design;" "Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention;" "Triumph of Simplicity: 350 Years of Swedish Silver;" "Scandinavian Modern 1880-1980;" "Vienna/New York: The Work of Joseph Urban, 1872-1933;" "American Enterprise: Nineteenth Century Patent Models;" "Jewelry: A Selection from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection;" "Recollections: A Decade of Collecting;" "Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard;" "Packaging the New: Design and the American Consumer;" "American Picture Palaces;" "Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design;" "Power of Maps;" "Color Light Surface: Recent Textiles;" "Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource;" "Design = Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread;" "Erich Mendelsohn: 1887-1953;" "Views of Rome: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana;" "Bon Voyage! Designs for Travel;" "Hawaii: The Royal Isles;" "Modern Spirit: Glass from Finland;" "Flora Danica and the Heritage of Danish Porcelain;" "Doghouse;" "Robert Adam and Kedleston Hall;" "The Jacquard Loom: Recent Experiments;" "Unlimited By Design;" "Gardens of Delight;" "Resorts of the Catskills;" "Hair;" "City Dwellings and Country Houses: Robert Adam and His Style;" "Canes and Walking Sticks;" "Fancy Fronts: Gentlemen's Waistcoats in the Eighteenth Century;" "Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft and Industry;" "Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in Holland, England, and America;" "Wine: Celebration and Ceremony;" "Golden Eye: An International Tribute to the Artisans of India;" "Memphis/Milano;" "Immovable Objects: Urban Open Spaces;" "Paris Opera on Stage: Designs, Costumes, Jewels;" "Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus;" "L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989;" "Writing and Reading;" "Berlin 1900-1933: Architecture and Design;" "Hollywood: Legend and Reality;" "Toys from the Nuremburg Spielzug Museum;" "Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America;" "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Building: Creating a Corporate Cathedral;" and "Arquitectonica: The Times Square Project." Some materials document non-exhibition renovation projects. Materials include floor plans, concept drawings, elevations, details, and related materials.