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Negative number: 95-20298 The Carnegie Mansion located at 9 East 90th Street in New York City was built in 1901, and underwent major renovation in order to become the new home of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 1976.

Negative number: 52769 A display of furniture and art work in an exhibition entitled "Treasures from the Cooper Union" at the National Collection of Fine Arts, July - September 1967. After the Smithsonian Institution took over the Cooper Union Museum in New York City on 1 July 1968, it was renamed the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Negative number: 67424-4 An exhibition of contemporary chairs called "Please Be Seated" presented by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Decorative Arts Program of the American Federation of Arts, 1968.

Negative number: 95-20296 Lisa Taylor, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, stands in front of a display of flags from the "MAN TRANSFORMS" exhibition. The exhibition commemorates the museum's re-opening in the newly renovated Carnegie Mansion, 1976.

Negative number: 95-20305 Austrian designer/architect Hans Hollein created an exhibit displaying the basic designs used to symbolize stars. The exhibit was part of the "MAN TRANSFORMS" exhibition for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's opening at the Carnegie Mansion, October 1976.

Negative number: 95-20307 Cloth sails are used on this ship in a bottle as a demonstration of the various designs and uses of cloth. Designer Hans Hollein created the exhibit "Metamorphosis of a Piece of Cloth" as a part of "MAN TRANSFORMS," the opening exhibition of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 1976.

Negative number: 95-20303 The "Angel Cage", designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, was part of "MAN TRANSFORMS," the opening exhibition of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum at its new home in the Carnegie Mansion, 1976.

Negative number: 95-20302 Iranian architects/designers Nader Ardalan and Karl Schlamminger created a plexiglass room for "MAN TRANSFORMS," the opening exhibition of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in its new home at the Carnegie Mansion, 1976.

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