Sampling Design
November 4, 2006
Sampling Design from the Permanent Collection
On view September 2007–March 2008
This exhibition will examine the historical and contemporary use of sampling formats–sample books that contain an actual physical example of a product or technique–as tools for marketing or recording designs and techniques in a wide variety of media. In use since the 18th century, sampling formats provide detailed views into the design tastes of their respective eras. Exhibition objects will include sample books of wallcoverings; textiles, ribbons and lace; transfer print plates with sample border designs; 19th-century fan maker’s designs; and early 20th-century kimono fabrics from Japan, among others. The exhibition is organized by Cooper-Hewitt curators Lucy Commoner and Matilda McQuaid.
January 11, 2007 at 3:05 am
The 19th century lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. Historians sometimes define a Nineteenth Century historical era stretching from 1815 (The Congress of Vienna) to 1914