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  • We acquired this object.

1997

  • Work on this object began.

2016

2025

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Bag, Little Box

This is a Bag. It was designed by Luisa Cevese and manufactured by Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Luisa Cevese as part of Scraps.

It is dated since 2014, textile since 1997. Its medium is polyurethane embedded with polyester and polyamide metallic threads.

It is credited Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.

  • Purse
  • silk, metal beads.
  • Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum.
  • 1953-106-10
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  • Purse
  • silk, metal.
  • Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum.
  • 1953-106-7
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Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Box (Indonesia)
  • plant material, cotton, glass beads.
  • Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment, Smithsonian Institution....
  • 1999-5-14
  • Woven Blind (USA)
  • cotton, viscose rayon, silk, wood, cellulose acetate-laminated aluminum yarn,....
  • Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin.
  • 1972-75-8
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  • Textile, Gold Ripple-Wave
  • cotton, rayon, lurex.
  • Museum Purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
  • 1998-56-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 10 × 17 × 8 cm (3 15/16 × 6 11/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Scraps.

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