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Drawings and prints, industrial and applied arts, textiles, and
wallcoverings, graphic design, industrial design, architecture,
urban planning, and environmental design
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Architecture
and Landscape Design |
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Curates the Smithsonian's diverse campus of buildings |
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Information and reading list on pyramid history and construction |
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Highlights include architectural drawings by Hector Guimard,
Hugh Ferris, and many others |
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Offers a collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images
and records documenting American gardens |
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Follow in the footsteps of the Mughal Emperors of the Indian
subcontinent |
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An online exhibition that documents Breuer's career as an architect
and designer through various archival materials |
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The gardens and landscapes of the Smithsonian are used to enhances
the architecture of the buildings and outdoor sculptures |
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Highlights include graphic design by Edward McKnight Kauffer,
Paula Scher, and other contemporary designers |
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The lithograph collection provides a distinctive view of 19th-century
American life as depicted in prints |
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This exhibition illustrates how posters from the late 19th century
to the present function as portraiture and communicate messages |
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Posters and memorabilia commemorating milestones in flight |
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In July 1942, magazines across the U.S. displayed the American
flag on their covers |
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Brings together some of the great graphic images made in the
United States over the past century |
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Posters to mobilize the American Home Front during World War
II |
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Fashion and Clothing Design |
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Dresses are more than simple articles of clothing for Native women—they are aesthetic expressions of culture and identity |
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View photos and information about a selection of dresses from
the National Museum of American History costume collection |
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Highlights include industrial design drawings
by Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, and more |
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Original Drawings for Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose
machine (Paris, 1588) |
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Jacques Besson and his Theater of Instruments
and Machines |
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Interior Design,
Furniture, and Decorative Arts |
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Looks at how African design influenced French Art Deco |
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Highlights include furniture designs by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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America's most widely admired contemporary furniture craftsman |
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Examines sample books and other sampling formats as tools for marketing or recording designs and techniques in a wide variety of media |
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Being a Complete Treatise on the Origin of Colour, the Laws
of Harmonious Colouring, the Manufacture of Pigments, Oils,
and Varnishes: and the Art of House Painting, Graining, and
Marbling: To Which is Added, a History of the Art in All Ages
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James McNeill Whistler transformed his patron's dining room
into a landmark of interior design |
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