Exhibitions

Ornament in the Twentieth Century

October 3, 1978 – January 7, 1979

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY

1st Floor

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On view are objects on loan and from the Cooper-Hewitt collection. Considered are ornaments for the human body, objects of daily use, posters, packaging material, corporate logos and designer initials, and ornamental aspects of garden and plaza design. Included is the highly ornamented Beatles' Rolls Royce Phantom V Touring Limosine, a gift of John Lennon.

Fact sheet available

Rolls-Royce poster available at MHT Museum Gift Shop