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‘Design for a Living World’ Opens at Cooper-Hewitt

Last week Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum celebrated the opening of its new exhibition Design for a Living World. Initiated and supported by The Nature Conservancy and co-curated by Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, the exhibition commissioned 10 designers from the fields of fashion, product and industrial design to each work with a sustainably grown and harvested material from an endangered eco-system where the Conservancy works. The participating designers include Yves Béhar, Stephen Burks, Hella Jongerius, Maya Lin, Christien Meindertsma, Isaac Mizrahi, Ted Muehling, Paulina Reyes from Kate Spade, Ezri Tarazi and Miller himself. Many of the designers were on hand for the opening galas, sharing news of their travels and projects firsthand with guests.

Abbott Miller’s exhibition design documents the participating designers’ creative process and explorations as much as it promotes the results, capturing the sense of discovery—what is it like to work with a material you’ve never used before—and the generation of ideas for developing a useful object. The exhibition presents this in an engaging and accessible way that promotes the idea that designers and consumers can actively participate in the advancement of a global conservation ethic.

Miller and his team also designed the exhibition catalogue and website and designed one of its featured projects, a chair made of FSC-certified plywood that inspired the approach to the exhibition design and casework.

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