Art&Entertainment
Private Tour of The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan
- Item Number
- 228
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 150 USD to Live Event Bidder
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Bid for an exclusive private guided museum tour for two of the new blockbuster exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan.The first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste during the creative explosion of the 1920s, The Jazz Age, contains more than 400 examples of interior and industrial design, decorative art, jewelry, fashion, and architecture, as well as related music and film. Giving full expression to the decade’s diversity and dynamism, The Jazz Age defines the American spirit of the period.
During the 1920s, the influences that fueled design’s burst of innovation, exoticism, and modernity were manifold and flowed back and forth across the Atlantic. Jazz music, a uniquely American art form, also found a ready audience in Europe. An apt metaphor for the decade’s embrace of urbanity and experimentation, jazz captured the pulse and rich mixture of cultures and rhythms that brought a new beat to contemporary life.
Organized into the themes of Persistence of Traditional “Good Taste,” A New Look for Familiar Forms, Bending the Rules, A Smaller World, Abstraction and Reinvention, and Toward a Machine Age and presented on two floors of the museum, The Jazz Age highlights the dynamic changes in American taste and lifestyles that prompted an outpouring of design and heralded an exhilarating new era.
During the one-hour tour, your personal trained museum docent will explore with you the influences that fueled design’s burst of innovation, change, and modernity.
This item will go to our Live event on Monday, June 26, 2017. If you will not be attending the Live event, place an absentee bid to increase the odds of winning this prize.
Item Special Note
A mutually convenient time to be arranged in advance. Valid until August 20, 2017.
Donated By:
Janet Chan
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