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On view February 15--September 28, 2008
As the seventh curators in this exhibition
series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando
and Humberto Campana mined the Museum's
collection departments and chose a diverse
group of more than thirty objects, dating
from the sixteenth to the twentieth
centuries. The selected pieces, which range
from book illustrations and jewelry, to
furniture and wallpaper designs, blend
unexpected media, layer varied forms, and
weave intricate patterns and lines. The
exploration of interwoven ideas and
unconventional materials has been a hallmark
of the Campana Brothers' work, and the
exhibition will feature a new piece of
furniture designed by the brothers
specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly
commissioned work completes their
TransPlastic series, which documents the
battle between nature and plastic.
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