National Design Week

Mark your calendars for Cooper-Hewitt’s largest education initiative! National Design Week (Oct 13th-21st) aims to draw national attention to the ways in which design enriches everyday life.

Launched in 2006, National Design Week is held each year in conjunction with the National Design Awards program. During National Design Week, Cooper-Hewitt’s award-winning Education Department hosts a series of free public programs based on the vision and work of the National Design Awards honorees. National Design Week culminates with the National Design Awards gala ceremony. 

In recognition of the importance of design education, organizations and institutions across the country sponsor design events throughout the month.

"House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors"

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Presents its 2008 exhibition “House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors”, in Paris this fall at the Museé de la Vie Romantique. Featuring 89 watercolors the exhibition explores the evolution of interior design in the 19th-century home and considers how interior spaces reflected the impact of contemporary social, cultural, economic and political developments.