Design

What do you notice about this object? Describe what you see.

Charles Eames and Ray Eames. Full Scale Model of Chaise Longue (La Chaise). 1948.

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Simple Machines

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Street sign for the exhibition Machine Art.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
March 5, 1934 through April 29, 1934.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

March 5, 1934 through April 29, 1934.

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 What do you
think this object
is used for?

What do you
notice about this
object that
makes you say
that?

Sven Wingquist. Self-Aligning Ball Bearing.

1907.

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 Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Outboard Propeller. Before 1934.

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 The Stanley Works. Tinsmith’s Hammer. Before
1940.

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Carl Elsener. Victorinox Swiss Officers’ Knife Champion (no. 5012).
1968.

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Everyday Marvels

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 Margaret E. Knight and Charles B. Stilwell.
Flat-bottomed Paper Bag. 1870s-1880s.

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 Art Fry and Spencer Silver. Post-it® Note. 1977.

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Earle Dickson. Band-Aid. 1921.

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Forrest Mars. M&Ms. Late 1930s.

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 Ray Tomlinson. @.

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Chairs

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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Side Chair.
1897.

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 Kazuo Kawasaki. Carna Folding Wheelchair.
1989.

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 Fernando Campana and Humberto Campana. Vermelha Chair. 1993.

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 Tokujin Yoshioka. Honey-Pop Armchair. 2000.

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 Charles Eames and Ray Eames. Side Chair (model DCW). 1946.

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Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D’Urbino and Jonathan De Pas. Blow Inflatable Armchair. 1967

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Material and Process:
Plastics

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Earl S. Tupper (American, 1907–1983).
Pitcher and Creamer. 1946.

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 W. Grancel Fitz. (American, 1894–1963). Cellophane.

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 Arthur Young (American, 1905–1995. Bell-47D1 Helicopter. 1945.

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Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D’Urbino and Jonathan De Pas. Blow Inflatable Armchair. 1967

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 UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund (est. 1946), Water container
Multiple manufacturers.

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 Michael Rakowitz (American, born 1973), paraSITE homeless shelter. 1997

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