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New Hotels for Global Nomads

October 29, 2002 - March 2, 2003

Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Location: First and Second Floor Galleries

Featuring an international mix of architecture, product design, fashion, and media, the exhibition highlights a current generation of hotels that meet tourists' demands for entertainment and business travelers' needs for offices on the road. It showcases developments in contemporary hotel design with full-scale models, drawings, computer renderings, products, and photographs, as well as objects for historical context. Contemporary artworks that critique and comment on the cultural role of hotels are also included.

Catalogue: $39.95 (paper)

See November 2002 Smithsonian magazine, pp. 43-44.