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Review: Design for a Living World at the Cooper-Hewitt
Posted on June 26, 2009
Imagine sending 10 top designers out into the world to make something. Now imagine you give them just three criteria: it has to be wonderful, desirable, and...sustainable.That's exactly what the Nature Conservancy did to create what is now an exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York.The designers, ranging from Yves Behar and Isaac Mizrahi to Maya Lin and Paulina Reyes from Kate Spade in New York were sent out to Nature Conservancy project sites from Maine to Alaska and from China to Bolivia. Each designer used materials found in the place and even employed local people to help fashion...
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